OT: ebay spoof

[Peter B]

Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for
those unsure of such matters:
I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay
telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2>
being noticed.
When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in
full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full
details...yeah, alright...I don't think so.
To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this.
I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and
similar ones.
<1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail
adresses to mine.
<2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user
details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.

Pete

 

[Stan Cox]

Peter B wrote:
> Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for
> those unsure of such matters:
> I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay
> telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2>
> being noticed.
> When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in
> full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full
> details...yeah, alright...I don't think so.
> To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this.
> I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and
> similar ones.
> <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail
> adresses to mine.
> <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user
> details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
>
> Pete
>
>
Got that email two days ago. Tried to report it to ebay. Got
thoroughly pi**ed off at their reporting procedure so just deleted it.

Stan Cox

 

[Tumbleweed]

"Stan Cox" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:A44pd.177$Q%[email protected]...
> Peter B wrote:
>> Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT
>> for
>> those unsure of such matters:
>> I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from
>> ebay
>> telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2>
>> being noticed.
>> When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill
>> in
>> full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full
>> details...yeah, alright...I don't think so.
>> To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this.
>> I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and
>> similar ones.
>> <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar
>> e-mail
>> adresses to mine.
>> <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user
>> details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
> Got that email two days ago. Tried to report it to ebay. Got thoroughly
> pi**ed off at their reporting procedure so just deleted it.
>
> Stan Cox

No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to '[email protected]'

(you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with
messages purporting to come from ebay )

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[Mark McN]

Response to Tumbleweed:
> No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to '[email protected]'
>
> (you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with
> messages purporting to come from ebay )
>

I did just that, and didn't even get a patronising message. :-(

--
Mark, UK.
We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him squeak,
We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

 

[Dave Kahn]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:31:35 +0000 (UTC), "Peter B"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for
>those unsure of such matters:
>I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay
>telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2>
>being noticed.
>When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in
>full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full
>details...yeah, alright...I don't think so.
>To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this.
>I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and
>similar ones.
><1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail
>adresses to mine.
><2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user
>details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.

I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries.
And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of.
And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my
help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.
And the latest security patches from Microsoft. And executables
containing great jokes or hot sex scenes. Oh, occasionally I get
genuine e-mail.

The PayPal and eBay ones you can forward to <[email protected]> or
<[email protected]>.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

 

[Tumbleweed]

"Dave Kahn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
<snip>>
> I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries.
> And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of.
> And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my
> help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.

Lucky *******, you must be rich by now.

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[sean]

Mark McN <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Response to Tumbleweed:
> > No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to '[email protected]'
> >
> > (you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with
> > messages purporting to come from ebay )
> >
>
> I did just that, and didn't even get a patronising message. :-(

Not getting one is one .........Hope this helps?
Sean.

 

[Dave Kahn]

"Tumbleweed" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Dave Kahn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> <snip>>
> > I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries.
> > And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of.
> > And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my
> > help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.
>
> Lucky *******, you must be rich by now.

Well, if I'd followed any of them up, I would be, natch.

--
Dave...

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:08:08 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries.
>> And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of.
>> And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my
>> help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.

>Lucky *******, you must be rich by now.

Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world,
who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen
feet long.

Guy
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[David Brown]

"Peter B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and
> similar ones.

Yes, please do report this as I get a few of these a week and can't be
bothered. My first ever one originated from 'scancom' (the phone side of
Scan computers) and I know this 'coz it was addressed to
[email protected] . I contacted 'scancom' regarding them giving my
email address away and they didn't even reply.

They are all wankers.

--
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http://ugcc.co.uk

 

[Peter B]

"Tumbleweed" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to '[email protected]'
>
> (you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with
> messages purporting to come from ebay )

Yeah, received the patronising one almost immediately and a little later
another automatically generated one slightly less patronising. I s'pose if
the pattern was to continue I'd eventually receive one accusing me of being
a sad w*nker and telling me to ******** and bother someone else

Pete

 

[Jon Senior]

Just zis Guy, you know? [email protected] opined the following...
> Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world,
> who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen
> feet long.

Is that "real" spam though, or hate mail from the end-users?

Jon

 

[Nick Kew]

In article <[email protected]>,
Jon Senior <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> writes:
> Just zis Guy, you know? [email protected] opined the following...
>> Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world,
>> who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen
>> feet long.

Four million a year isn't that much: I'd be somewhere around that if
I disabled my spam filtering.

The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source
software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP. They acknowledged
him in a README file, which included his email address. Some of the
spamming viruses found the address, generating several times that load
per day when those viruses are active.

--
Nick Kew

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email protected] (Nick Kew)
wrote:

>Four million a year isn't that much: I'd be somewhere around that if
>I disabled my spam filtering.

Oops: four billion.

Guy
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[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email protected] (Nick Kew)
wrote:

>The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source
>software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP

Impossible. Microsoft would never incorporate viral licensing into
its products.

Guy
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http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

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[Alan Braggins]

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email protected] (Nick Kew)
>wrote:
>
>>The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source
>>software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP
>
>Impossible. Microsoft would never incorporate viral licensing into
>its products.

Microsoft has however, entirely legally, incorporated BSD-type licenced
open-source software into its products, rendering the question of whether
"viral" is a reasonable description of copyleft irrelevent.

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Alan Braggins
('[email protected]') wrote:

> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email protected] (Nick Kew)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose
>>>open-source software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP
>>
>>Impossible. Microsoft would never incorporate viral licensing into
>>its products.
>
> Microsoft has however, entirely legally, incorporated BSD-type
> licenced open-source software into its products, rendering the
> question of whether "viral" is a reasonable description of copyleft
> irrelevent.

Which is part of why I've switched from BSD licensing to GPL licensing
my products.

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