EBAY SCAM EMAIL !!! Read If You're An Ebayer !!

**Jizar II** · 03-16-2003, 07:53 AM

I agree thats pretty scary!.. When they can trick us they can trick anybody!!

**Muff** · 03-16-2003, 07:55 AM

Are you on AOL?

**DarkJedi** · 03-16-2003, 07:58 AM

Originally posted by Slick

...It scares the shit outta me

I know man, tonight I'm sleeping with the lights on

**Slick** · 03-16-2003, 07:58 AM

Originally posted by Muff
Are you on AOL?

Nope, Charter Pipeline buddy.

I've been a webmaster for going on 7 years, I'm surely not a newbie in case that's what you were infering.

**Wizzo** · 03-16-2003, 07:59 AM

Originally posted by Muff
Are you on AOL?

LOL

**Muff** · 03-16-2003, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by Slick

Nope, Charter Pipeline buddy.

I've been a webmaster for going on 7 years, I'm surely not a newbie in case that's what you were infering.

lol. No just people on AOL seem to be the ones subjected to carders.

**Slick** · 03-16-2003, 08:25 AM

Originally posted by Muff

lol. No just people on AOL seem to be the ones subjected to carders.

oooooooh, ha ha ha

**escorpio** · 03-16-2003, 08:29 AM

My father is retired and a big eBayer. He received that exact scam about a month ago and didn't fall for it, thank God. He sent me a copy and I filled it out with a bunch of bullshit and a big FUCK YOU at the end.

**Dirty F** · 03-16-2003, 08:35 AM

Originally posted by escorpio
and I filled it out with a bunch of bullshit and a big FUCK YOU at the end.

Good work sailor, that mustve have given them sleepless nights!!!

**aflex** · 03-16-2003, 09:15 AM

i recieved it too, which made me worry cuz i sold a laptop on ebay at the end fo ebays billing cycle.. so i did owe money at somepoint and i figured they tried to bill it and the CC was dead.. i heard about the scams though so i just went to ebay.com and fixed it.. deleted that scam mail and told other people that use ebay about it..

**B40** · 03-16-2003, 09:17 AM

If you look at the reply-to field, chances are it's not @ebay.com, that should be enough of a warning sign.

**aflex** · 03-16-2003, 09:20 AM

the email addy was an @ebay.com addy.. thats the part that tricks people.. look at the guys screenshot

**B40** · 03-16-2003, 09:23 AM

Originally posted by aflex
the email addy was an @ebay.com addy.. thats the part that tricks people.. look at the guys screenshot

The From field was, but the reply-to probably wasn't.

**Luc Duboi** · 03-16-2003, 09:24 AM

I fell for it. shit. too late.

**Juggernaut** · 03-16-2003, 09:28 AM

Originally posted by aflex
the email addy was an @ebay.com addy.. thats the part that tricks people.. look at the guys screenshot

In sendmail (for example), it's easy to put anything you want in the "sent from" column. They do the same thing with the ICQ "update your password and verify your account details" spam. The only part that never fits, is the URL, it never ends up being of the sender.

One day I'm sure they will make it law for every big company to solicit such updates only through some security mechanism like SSL, with certificates and such.

**Slick** · 03-16-2003, 09:40 AM

Originally posted by B40
If you look at the reply-to field, chances are it's not @ebay.com, that should be enough of a warning sign.

When I clicked on Reply, I got this

So it DOES have an @ebay reply addy. They probably just figure that if people don't fill out the form, but instead reply to it with questions, that they're probably not gonna fool them..

**AdultNex** · 03-16-2003, 11:50 AM

Marry Kimmel?

Mistype of Mary?

**stocktrader23** · 03-16-2003, 11:54 AM

Originally posted by Muff
Are you on AOL?

I'm am just a sexy girl.

**stocktrader23** · 03-16-2003, 11:55 AM

Originally posted by B40
If you look at the reply-to field, chances are it's not @ebay.com, that should be enough of a warning sign.

How about when they can't spell and have shitty sentence structure it should be enough of a warning sign.

**B40** · 03-16-2003, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by stocktrader23

How about when they can't spell and have shitty sentence structure it should be enough of a warning sign.

Or when the link they tell you to click on sends you to a geocities site

**escorpio** · 03-16-2003, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by Battuss

Good work sailor, that mustve have given them sleepless nights!!!

!

Damn right! Knowing you've pissed ME off should put the fear of God into a scammer!

Seriously, I kind of thought it would be funny for some asshole somewhere to think "Hooray! Fish on!" go through all that bullshit and at the end getting a FUCK YOU! I should have left off the FUCK YOU and let them think it's real. If everyone who received that email did that it would be hilarious! Stupid fucker at an ATM trying bullshit PINS all day!

**Probono** · 03-16-2003, 12:58 PM

Looks a like like the Paypal email scheme of last week asking for undated information as a security upgrade. The url was pointing at a site owned by folks in South Arfica.

**psyko514** · 03-16-2003, 02:50 PM

Christ.. the subject alone would have thrown me off.

"ebaY security check"

**Rochard** · 03-16-2003, 03:52 PM

Your not so slick after all.

**AWC** · 03-16-2003, 03:56 PM

It means you are only half lame...

**Slick** · 03-16-2003, 05:45 PM

Originally posted by RocHard
Your not so slick after all.

Actually, I DIDN'T fall for it and did catch it, so I'm still Slick

**HS-Trixxxia** · 03-16-2003, 06:50 PM

Actually Slick, how would they know you're on ebay? Could your card have been one of the many million compromised about a month ago?

Check your statements.

**psyko514** · 03-16-2003, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by Trixxxia
Actually Slick, how would they know you're on ebay? Could your card have been one of the many million compromised about a month ago?

Check your statements.

That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
There's no proof that the hacker actually accessed the credit card numbers. And there has not been a single reported case of fraud related to the hacked credit card numbers.

Good stuff, Chicken Little.

**foreverjason** · 03-16-2003, 07:21 PM

I know man, tonight I'm sleeping with the lights on

lol

**Rich** · 03-16-2003, 07:30 PM

scary shit indeed

**HS-Trixxxia** · 03-16-2003, 07:40 PM

psyko514,
ooo.....relax there buddy-you'll still have a job tomorrow.

If the hacker was smart enough to get in....he most likely has something - (just that they won't cause pandemonium and have to overload themselves with costs - issueing new cards, numbers, mailing them out, doubling their workload - if they don't know for sure what the financial implications of him having the numbers will mean to them - yet)
If he is a smart one and this was planned and not some kid who got in by fluke, I would assume he's brilliant enough not to put his newly acquired information to use right away.

I could be wrong but hey.......I'm always the devil's advocate

EBAY SCAM EMAIL !!! Read If You're An Ebayer !!

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