FW: e-bay

Fri Sep 26 17:40:38 UTC 2003

this is most definitely a combination credit card & ebay account scam..

this has happened numerous times over the last year and, in many cases the
offender has
also used the hijacked account information to offer items for sale &
setup phoney escrow companies to lull the purchaser into
putting up the funds..

the scale of this fraud is, frankly, huge, but many companies like ebay &
paypal downplay it
to avoid tainting the legitimacy of their respective businesses

ken stubbs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike at sentex.net>
To: "Mike Tomasura" <MTomasura at BradleyCaldwell.com>; <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: FW: e-bay

>
>
> Its sad how many people get taken in by obvious and less obvious scams
like
> this.... But I guess this is as old as the "knock knock:  Wallet
> inspector."...
> There was a similar paypal scam that had "click here to go to
> www.paypal.com" which looked and displayed nice and legit in the email,
but
> the href really sent you to a site in Korea that looked exactly like the
> paypal login screen....  "Thank you for verifying your information"....
Indeed!
>
>          ---Mike
>
> At 12:25 PM 26/09/2003, Mike Tomasura wrote:
>
>
> > > I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from
them.
> > >
> > > Dear eBay user!
> > >
> > > At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number
> > > of accounts in the system during the database
> > > maintenance. If you have an active account, please
> > > click on the link below to update your credit card
> > > information. If you have problems with your account, please let us
know
> > > at email support at ebay.com <mailto:support at ebay.com>
> > >
> > > https://cgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInformation
> > > <https://e%31bay.com/saw-cgi/?UpdateInformation>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>