Re: [Mid] ebay scam

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Adalasia@aol.com wrote:

> I recently received a email from aw-notice@ebay saying in short that
> my account was going into suspension. I contacted ebay through their
> web page and this is a scam to get account info. I got two email
> replies from ebay within an hour of contacting them, saying if I had
> clicked the link or gave out the info to immediatly change all my
> passwords and contact my credit card company. If you get the aw-notice
> message do not click the link, forward entire message to ebay. These
> scammers made it sound very real.
> Adalasia, (who luckily, did not click the link)

you will get the same thing from "paypal" as well.

I have gotten several of these nearly convincing spoofs over the pas
months. Some of them are cheeky enough to use the graphics pulled from
Paypals own servers. So it doesn't just LOOK like paypals graphics it
IS paypal's graphics. The link to the page they send you too though is
tricked out to SHOW you the right place as your status rollover, but it
instead goes to somewhere else entirely. (evil doers)

WHAT TO DO:
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IN THE MAIL (they will just harvest your username
and password and rob you blind with it.) Do nothing but Delete that
mail asap. Forget you even saw it. (Take a shower to wash the "ick"
of it off you. Just kidding)

If you want to make sure it's not a real warning go to the real site as
you normally would and log in
-- In ebay go to "my ebay", if there is a problem, they'll tell you
there.
-- In paypal as soon as you login it will tell you if you have a
business to deal with.

I always send mine into the places being spoofed with full headers so
they can pursue it, but on ebay it's next to impossible to find the
place to report it, so screw'em. Paypal is easier to report to and I
often get investigation letters back.

griz, crime fighter

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Received on Wed Oct 22 23:40:23 2003