Geek Galaxy

Well, over the past few months, almost every day i have recieved a email from paypal. Of course this was a phishing message becuase of the fact that i don't own a paypal account. It's a fairly short and rather official looking email. It basically says someone has tried several times to access your paypal account and have entered the wrong pass. It then says to click a link to verify it was you who was trying to log in. It then says if you don't click the link by some date, your account will be temporarily suspended. So, i call paypal and i learned that any email without your name at the top of it is a phishing message. The weird part about it was that the message came from the official paypal service email account. However, i was told by some tech support guys over at geekstogo.com that with php knowledge you can make a message appear to have come from anyone. I never used to get phishing messages or any spam at all with gmail but all the sudden, it's coming like crazy. I get messages from banks saying the same thing as that paypal scammmer did. It's just plain ridiculous. I almost feel like creating a different email account and never opening that one again. Well, i guess that'll have to wait considering all the newsletters i subscribe to go to that email. Speaking of newsletters, i wonder if one of the newsletter owners sold my email to a third party and that's where all this spam is coming from. Well, i guess i'll just have to live with it....