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| fatfingers:
Excellent! |
| Kaytrim:
your aim is a little off there dude. :dizzy: |
| Samstag:
These are NOT from ebay's message system. They're meant to look identical. If you put your cursor over any links in the message you'll see that they don't go to ebay.com, but somewhere else with ebay in the name. Yahoo seems to filter most of mine out, but I have seen one recently. Remember, it's easy to make an email look like it came from a legit source. Don't trust any email you weren't expecting, and don't trust anything that comes from a known hangout of scammers (Ebay). If you get something legit from ebay, you can open a new window and login manually to see the same information. |
| Mr. Do:
--- Quote from: Samstag on April 03, 2007, 07:23:58 pm ---These are NOT from ebay's message system. They're meant to look identical. If you put your cursor over any links in the message you'll see that they don't go to ebay.com, but somewhere else with ebay in the name. Yahoo seems to filter most of mine out, but I have seen one recently. Remember, it's easy to make an email look like it came from a legit source. Don't trust any email you weren't expecting, and don't trust anything that comes from a known hangout of scammers (Ebay). If you get something legit from ebay, you can open a new window and login manually to see the same information. --- End quote --- No offense, but I'm not THAT naive. I did not click a link in my email, I was on eBay's site, logged in manually to my account, and accessed the message from the "My Messages" system within eBay, answering a reply to a "Want it Now" post. The point is that the phishing scam is coming from what are probably compromised accounts and being posted within eBay. Just finished with a live rep. I guess this thing has ramped up recently in the past couple days, and there should be something on their announcements page soon. |
| Kaytrim:
Good to hear that they are on top of the issue. Thanks to users like you who go the extra mile to bring this to their attention. I have received messages trying to get me to buy something similar to something that I was selling but I wasn't buying it. I'd pass them on and leave it at that. All my messages come into a separate email account I have set aside for my eBay sales. When I get one of these I just froward it on to spoof@ebay.com. They normally get back to me soon telling me that they will take care of it. TTFN :cheers: Kaytrim |
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