17 Jan
2006
17 Jan
'06
12:16 p.m.
A quick warning because I know a lot of y'all deal extensively on
eBay, and I obviously hadn't seen this one before.
I just got a phished "My Messages" eBay email from "a potential
buyer". It purported to be a question about a listed item, and the
links to the listing took me to a fake login page. It's very slick, I
wasn't paying attention and I fell for it.
I'm sure I'll get caught now...
I stick with ancient e-mail software that doesn't let ne click on links.
That doesn't attempt to decode/dsipaly html. And which certaily doesn't
run executable programs (in any language).
I am less likely to get caught by something like this because I will spot
that the link doesn't go to ebay.co.uk or wherever, but goes to some
totally unknown site. At which point I am pretty sure it's fraudulent
-tony