16 Jan
2006
16 Jan
'06
7:01 p.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
Right. And on mine, the auction item number was
invalid.
I just checked the auction number I got, and it acted as if I were doing
a regular search..... like for a part number or something. I found the
"related search" links interesting. one of them was the username that I
got in the email.
Well, yeah, but that was a little late. :\
Like I said, if I had been paying attention (and if eBay wasn't
constantly "tweaking" the look and feel), it would have been fairly easy
to spot. But I wasn't.
I noticed the email wasn't exactly like what I'm used to getting, but I
figured Ebay had just revamped it.
No, I mean that when I clicked the "item
link" in the phisher's email,
and logged into the page it took me to, it redirected me to eBay and
logged me into my real account, so that I ended up in my normal "My
Summary" interface, with my current watched items and stuff showing.
I get what your saying now.
I did report this to Ebay. Normally, I don't bother, but I figured if I
hadn't seen this approach before, maybe they hadn't either.
I did a quick Google search, and I got about 1 page of hits, using the
username I was given. Another slight twist, is that the guy will claim
that he's tried twice to send payment via Paypal, wants to know if
there's something wrong with your Paypal account. One potential victim
noticed that the sender must be using multiple usernames because he
forgot to change it in one spot, so his email showed two different
supposed users sending the message.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA