Re: Re: Beware of attachments!!!

From: Mikal <mikalm_at_ix.netcom.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:26:09 -0800

If you ever get one of the fake eBay messages, forward it to spoof_at_ebay.com.
These are the eBay security folks who trace and confront the scammers who
send these things.

I receive these sham emails several times a week, on average, and ALWAYS
forward them to the eBay security address.


> I've seen the eBay one several times. That one is really sneaky: First
off,
> you don't even need to give eBay a credit card # if you just want to bid
on
> items and not sell them. I clicked on the link of this bogus e-mail once
and it
> did a hell of a redirect (from a weird URL with about 250 characters in
it),
> to a page that aped the eBay sign-up page, but when I checked the
properties on
> the page, it was the weird URL and not ebay.com as it appeared in the
> browser.
>
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Received on 2003-11-02 11:23:08

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