I've forwarded a dozen or so of these messages to spoof@ebay.com---and apparently every one of them was a phishing attempt.
I'd love to get my hands on the jassacks who do this sort of thing. Just five hot minutes, with my fingers around their throats, that's all I'm asking.
i get them in all languages, which is all right because 6.7 million dollars is glaringly obvious in languages of which i have no rudimentary knowledge. :)
Maybe we should start a support group for violated eBay accounts.
I got an actual email from Paypal advertising some service (the credit card I think), so for fun I forwarded it to their spoof address. They thanked me too ... go figger
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Date: 2006-01-31 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-31 04:44 pm (UTC)I'd love to get my hands on the jassacks who do this sort of thing. Just five hot minutes, with my fingers around their throats, that's all I'm asking.
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Date: 2006-01-31 04:55 pm (UTC)Nothing apparent about it. Ebay and/or Paypal do not send out emails like this, in any way ...
which is why I was joking about it ... cause it's silly ...
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Date: 2006-01-31 05:02 pm (UTC)I get this about 3 times a week. I'm used to it now.
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Date: 2006-01-31 05:22 pm (UTC)It used to be just for Nigerian Bank Scams, but I've added to others to it lately.
Lately it's just been headers, since the body of the emails tend to be cut and paste of the same few templates.
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Date: 2006-01-31 06:14 pm (UTC)Maybe we should start a support group for violated eBay accounts.
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Date: 2006-01-31 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-01 05:47 am (UTC)I've told mine to start fights in the cafeteria to get put into solitary.