17 Jan
2006
17 Jan
'06
4:44 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:16 pm
Subject: Re: Sort of OT; new eBay phish
Yeah, its very easy. I almost
fell for this one myself. I'd imeediatly
change your ebay password.
Also thing I now make a habit of is entering a wrong password first,
every time I'm asked for one. I think this very slightly raises my
security level.
All the best
Larry Cuffe
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