Be careful out there.

Bill

The perfect anagram to describe the jerk behind that e-mail:

a fib instilling moron

It's not long ago we had a similar discussion about PayPal.

I think the same applies here as to the PayPal scam. Genuine messages from eBay will be addressed using your eBay ID, not general salutations such as "Dear Member."

hey guys i smell a dirty rat.someone sent me an official looking give away for a drawing on ebay for a ford explorer. when i typed in a fake identity it took it.knew it was a scam.i buy a lot on there & like the people there.but i hope they catch this rat. because it really makes me

If you receive a bogus ebay email send it to
spoof@ebay.com.

"...eBay billing informations are out of order..."

This sounds like it came from the same morons that send out that Nigerian oil scam B.S. all the time!! I'd like to perform a lobotomy on these ^*^&^%&%$*^!

Mike (mamills)

Gee, it's been at least three days since I saw something like that. Looked like it was snached from a real eBay message but a look at the code showd the link was bogus. I forwarded it to eBay and got a reply in less than 2 hours. I think they take this stuff seriously.

Bill,
I had a virus enter my computer last week through a message masked as a warning from my ISP.
I'm not very happy about this, even though I have isolated it, what's real and what isn't these days?.

One of the things you'll see on a genuine ebay email is their cautionary notice to NOT give out your credit card info nor your password nor any other detail that would compromise your account. If they really have a problem with your credit card or something, they'll find a way to notify you... such as a 'bounce' or rejection of your card when making a purchase.

For those that have MBNA credit cards, have you ever used their ShopSafe option? It is a way to create a unique 1-time only credit card number that is mapped back to your existing card and safeguards you from someone picking up your card number from a transaction and loading up charges before you can detect it. I highly recommend it. You can find a demo at http://www.mbnashopsafe.com/ and see if the offer would help. I'm not sure it would help for accounts such as paypall where your card info is retained for future transactions.

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Hallo,

Haben Sie Ihr Passwort vergessen und moechten jetzt ein vorlaeufiges Passwort anfordern.

Sollten Sie Ihr Passwort nicht vergessen haben, so ignorieren Sie bitte diese E-Mail.

Unter der folgenden Internetadresse koennen Sie Ihr neues Passwort festlegen:
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Tom

Tom:

Here's a (rough!) translation obtained via http://babelfish.altavista.com:

"I'd like to perform a lobotomy on these ^*^&^%&%$*^! "
Mamills, you are assuming this person has a brain, to perform such an operation on.....
but then again, some folks actually fall for such scams.
Tiff

Thanks for the translation,

Tom

Bill
You mean like this?, I edited the website so one couldn't click on it but otherwise its just how they sent it to me, no way would I ever go to a site that solicted me by EMail unless I requested them to. Truly bogus


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walrus,

Yep, that's the one!
I wonder how many people get pulled in on these things. It's a shame.


Bill

Tiffany:
How right you are!! I stand corrected .

It would be interesting to know how many people fall for this garbage? I feel like sending some sort of scathing reply to these scam-artists, but I fear that would lead to even more problems.

Mike (mamills)