[s-cars] Latest ebay scam - account phishing

[Harold McComas]

I got one of those fake ebay messages, stating something to the effect that 
my account may have been violated. It said to use this link and verify your 
information, ya right.

Two things stood out, it was addressed to "account user" where ebay always 
addresses you by name. I guess "account user" makes it easier to do a mass 
mailing. Second I hovered my mouse over the link, which will show where the 
link takes you  at the bottom of the screen, above the start button. 
Naturally it did not show ebay. Take the extra 30 seconds and type in the 
web address rather than clicking a link.

Harold M

> From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Latest ebay scam - account phishing
> To: Sean Douglas <quattro20v at telus.net>
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
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> 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