30 Aug
2003
30 Aug
'03
12:43 a.m.
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