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03-31-2005, 11:04 AM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2004
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   | ebay scam email! Hello, I received below email today which had the ebay logo and everything else that makes you believe it really came from them. When I checked the source/details I found this: Received: from www.humanlife-ugr.com (198.65.238.223)by mail19b.g19.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 2-020291227for Return-Path: <humanl@humanlife-ugr.com> Interesting enough, this domain was only registered yesterday 03/30/05 http://www.whois.sc/humanlife-ugr.com Subj: your ebay account could be suspended Date: Thu, 31 3 2005 11:57:07 am GMT From: eBay Billing Department team <e-w-confirm@eBay.com> To: feedback@XXXXXXX.com Reply-To: e-w-confirm@eBay.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Dear valued customer Need Help? We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after this period your account will be terminated. For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/79214-ebay-scam-email.html Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay. Regards,Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc The eBay team. This is an automatic message. Please do not reply. |
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03-31-2005, 11:11 AM
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| NamePros Legend  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: SW Missouri
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   | I always forward those to spoof@ebay.com I usually get one or two a week.. What kills me is similar emails proclaiming my bank account will be closed for banks I don't belong to and claiming i've won prizes for contests I've never entered. I also get emails claiming my "home loan" has been approved with text that exactly matches that of emails from 5-6 other "people".. spam is without a doubt the biggest scourge of the internet. |
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03-31-2005, 11:11 AM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 363
| Im getting them all the time atm... PJ
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03-31-2005, 01:28 PM
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| Account Suspended  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: root@localhost
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 | Such scams get more and more professional; recently I got an e-mail with a web-form, instead of a link to some place like 206.158.33.6:18156/ebay where I had to enter my username/pass. More surprisingly, when you enter something in there, you get redirected to authentic eBay page!  |
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03-31-2005, 01:33 PM
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| New.Net Destroyer....  Join Date: Feb 2005
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   | yeah I get them a lot too, nearly got caught out once. I get the for paypal too which is even more worrying. General rule of thumb: If you get such an email, just type the URL direct into your browser, e.g ebay.com and log in from there. You will be able to see in your acc. if there are any problems.
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03-31-2005, 01:45 PM
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| NamePros Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: UK
Posts: 157
| I got one the other week. Amazing how realistic they are !! I sent my to ebay and got an automated response and nobody followed it up. I guess they get too many..... Simply rule: never click on a link or respond ! S. |
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