[s-cars] Latest ebay scam - account phishing

[tony.curran at sympatico.ca]

Ebay and Paypal will always use your assigned monika if they direct an e-mail to you.

Tony
96 S6

> 
> From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/01/27 Fri AM 08:16:09 EST
> To: Sean Douglas <quattro20v at telus.net>
> CC: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Latest ebay scam - account phishing
> 
> One easy way to see this is checking the "to:" field- all of the emails I
> received were sent to multiple addresses.
> 
> Another good way is to open the site in Netscape- the browser has very good
> anti-phishing tools that identify if the site you are on is what it appears
> to be.
> 
> It would be nice if ebay and some credit card issuers would do what my bank
> does-
> all they send you via email is that you have a message. You have to login to
> the
> bank website to read the message and there is no clickable link in the
> bank's email.
> 
> Taka
> 
> 
> On 1/26/06, Sean Douglas <quattro20v at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > Ditto.
> >
> > I have received several emails lately from a buyer (that doesn't exist)
> > saying he paid me for something I sold (I never did) and he demands a
> > refund.
> >
> > Link takes you to a spoof ebay site and asks for (you guessed it) my
> > username and password - Not!
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > I've been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from
> > > prospective bidders asking questions about items I have
> > > listed. Interestingly, I may or may not have anything listed
> > > and the email is *not* going to my registered ebay email address.
> > >
> > > The inquiry looks legit, like it came from ebay. However, to
> > > reply to the question, I have to click on a link in the
> > > email...and guess what, the link doesn't take me to the
> > > domain I'm expecting.
> > >
> > > Clearly these jerks are phishing for account information - login/id.
> > >
> > > Be careful out there!
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
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