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 decked dubby
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| posted on July 19th, 2003 at 06:26 PM |
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*****WARNING TO ALL E-BAY USERS*****
Hello all,
I am a regular user of E-BAY, as a lot of you are. On Thursday I was sent a e-mail from E-Bay saying that my account had been suspended due to a
"Misrepresentation of Identity (User) - Representing yourself as another eBay user or registering using the identity of another".
Apparently, this was the only way I could clear myself, "According to our site policy you will have to confirm that you are the real owner of the
eBay account by completing the following form or else your account will be deleted". Now what I had to do is prove that I was me. The e-mail
contained a form that linked itself to E-BAY that needed to be filled out with personal info about myself that proved who I was. I read the form and
got suspicious on the amount of info they needed. The info needed started with; credit card info, address, phone numbers, social security number, bank
account number all the way to my PIN numbers.
Angry that I got the e-mail in the first place, and pissed that they wanted so much info (no way was I going to give it) I logged onto E-BAY and asked
for a explination. I got a answer, THE E-MAIL IS A HOAX!!
Please, be very aware, the e-mail I recieved was exceptional quality, right down to the coloured E-BAY heading and links to their site. The only thing
that made me suspicious was the amount of info they wanted. I hate to think the amount of people that reply to this e-mail.
If anybody would like a copy (it contains no attachments) I would be happy to e-mail to them. E-BAY is investigating this problem. E-BAY WAS FAST TO
RESPOND AND HAVE BEEN VERY GOOD TO DATE. PLEASE be very careful. There are scum out there that will scam us if given the chance, DON'T GIVE THEM
THE CHANCE.
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on July 19th, 2003 at 06:36 PM |
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Thanks Decked Dubby
... very cunning. There are enough stupid people out there to fall for it indeed.
Please email me a copy - I would be interested in having a look for sure.
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Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
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Herbie
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| posted on July 20th, 2003 at 01:58 AM |
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Yes please I would like to see this email, please send it to me, I am a fairly regular ebayer.
I always worry that a dummy webpage posing as an official website will happily record my passwords etc as I unwittingly type away,
I think the world is in for a monumental heist of funds across the board, Its a crazy information highway.
Cheers Tony
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amazer
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| posted on July 20th, 2003 at 08:38 PM |
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ANOTHER ONE... maybe
http://www.usahotelguide.com
my mother was 'booked' into a motel through this website. Got a confirmed reservation email and everything. But when she got to the hotel
they knew nothing about it. Im not sure if this is a credit card fraud thing or just a slack business. They said they knew about the website as they
have had a few people turning up for non existant bookings.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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SKEWtYpe3
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| posted on July 21st, 2003 at 03:29 PM |
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yeah this is a shitty thing to happen to you
you think the turds that organised it would put all that time and money into working for their money, not scamming innocent ppl..
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squizy
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| posted on July 21st, 2003 at 03:57 PM |
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Ghosting
This is called ghosting, whereby hoaxers will pass themselves off as the main site. Over the past weeks we've had duplicate banking sites
uncovered, and shutdown courtesy of the our Federal Police and the FBI! One of the sites was based in Florida, but was actually being run out of the
Ukraine!
So.....beware everyone. If you receive a suspect email, or a request to re-enter any of your login ID's - check with the owner of the website, or
check your URL and confirm that it is from your provider, and is not a ghosted site!
Squiz......
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