29 Aug
2003
29 Aug
'03
8:32 p.m.
I was talking to a friend who got one of those "your credit card
information is invalid" type emails. Since he didn't have a credit card,
it was rather obvious is was fraudulent :).
rogersda(a)cox.net wrote:
A similar scam was attempted on me about a month ago regarding my Paypal account. The
*first* hint that it wasn't legit' was that it came to an email account other than
the one Paypal knows me at.
Dale (the DECdude)
Jay West <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I recently got an email from the "Ebay security audit team" or something
to
> that affect. Says they periodically verify contact information, and couldn't
> verify mine, asking me to follow a link to update my account or it would be
> disabled in 5 days.
>
> I followed the link, noticed it wasn't in secure mode, and wondered why EBAY
> would need my bank account number, routing/ABA numbers, not to mention SSN and
> home address and credit card numbers, etc. The form asked for everything
> imaginable. Yikes!
>
> Upon getting suspicious I checked the headers and html links in the message -
> needless to say - NOT ebay. Watch out for this one! I did report it to the
> spoof team at Ebay.
>
> Jay West