posted on October 25, 2000 10:09:06 PM new
Did anyone else get this? I never received the "first" email they refer to and I wonder why eBay has advertising on their emails to me..??? WTF? Oh, the full headers are included if anyone can figure anything out by that (I never can, personally). This came from [email protected]
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Received: from mail.cee.sc.gov.br ([200.19.209.1]) by mail.satx.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53);
Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:01:50 -0500
Received: from earthlink.net
(PPPa15-ResaleShreveport2-2R7011.saturn.bbn.com [4.4.22.140])
by mail.cee.sc.gov.br; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:21:47 -0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
From: [email protected]
Subject: Dear eBay Member
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:42:54 -0500
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Return-Path: [email protected]
From: <[email protected]>
To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: Dear eBay Member
*****We apologize for this second email. We were having server problems yesterday
which prevented many of you from accessing our site. The site is running fine now. *****
Qualifying For A FREE Grant Is Easy!
$10,000 to over $100,000 in FREE Grant Money is Available NOW!
~ Never Repay ~
~ No Credit Checks ~
~ No Interest Charges ~
See if YOU meet the requirements! Click on our website below NOW!
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To be removed from our mailing list, send an email with 'remove' in the
subject to [email protected]
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Anyone else get this or care to comment?
Sheri
[email protected]
[ edited by BlackCoffeeBlues on Oct 25, 2000 10:14 PM ]
posted on October 25, 2000 10:15:46 PM new
I got this a while back too. However, read the address or greeting carefully. If it says to: ebay seller or user------it's usually not from ebay. They are using ebay for a mailing list!
posted on October 25, 2000 10:53:04 PM new
if you check the announcement board often at ebay,(see below)you'll see these often.Just be sure to never give out your password.good luck,pam Oregon
User: [email protected]
Date: 10/09/00
Time: 16:18:33 PDT MORE FOR YOUR PROTECTION! We have received reports that some eBay users have received unsolicited e-mails from third parties, claiming to be eBay and inviting users to participate in commercial opportunities. Some of the emails have requested that users provide credit card information or eBay passwords. In particular, this latest SPAM appears to be targeted to AOL members. We urge you to please check the URL of any page that requests your User ID and password. Some of these unscrupulous third parties have falsified pages to make them appear to be a part of eBay by stealing our logo and navigation bar. Unfortunately, this is somewhat easy to do - despite the fact that it is illegal.Again, we urge you to please check the URL of any page and to look for a legitimate eBay address in that URL - such as www.ebay.com – before submitting your User ID, password or any other sensitive information. When you receive unsolicited commercial e-mail from a third party, eBay urges you to please practice the following safety tips
1. Do not give out your credit card information! eBay will NEVER request that you submit your credit card information via e-mail. 2. Do not give out your password! Giving out your password will compromise the security of your eBay account. We wholeheartedly encourage you to change your password on a regular basis. To change your eBay password, go to:
http://pages.ebay.com/services/myebay/selectpass.html Thank you very much for helping us protect your safety at eBay. Regards,
eBay
posted on October 26, 2000 06:55:48 AM new
This is spam. Treat anything that claims easy money in some way as likely spam, and treat anything that says to send money to five or some other number of names while crossing out one name and adding yours as pyramid scheme spam (no matter how strongly they argue they are not schemes or scams or that they are for real -- the more they beg they're legitimate, the more likely they are not). This advice that may save you many headaches at some point.
Earthlink is known as a common source of spam, but it looks like this might actually originate somewhere else altogether, for the received path looks very suspicious.
AOL and at least one other major company (Yahoo? ) went after spammers (in the courts) a few years back, after spammers had been faking their domain names in numerous mass mailings of bulk mail. The reasons they sued the spammers were because the volume of complaints that got sent to the faked domain (e.g. AOL) was large, adding unnecessary strain to the (often already overloaded) servers, and because it was an image thing (being seen as spammers' havens would be a huge negative). Of course, some spam still originates from those domains, but more spammers have moved on to using (directly or indirectly) other domains.
Earthlink is not well known for dealing with spam, however, and given that there are more and more of these "eBay" ones, I wonder if eBay is seriously investigating these fake "eBay" notes either. They should -- this sort of junk only hurts their reputation, even if they are otherwise innocent on this one.
Notice the "server problems" line near the top of the spam -- this seems to add an element of unfortunate realism (given all eBay's problems).
eBay should, IMO, make bidder addresses inaccessible to all but the sellers of items they bid on. There seems no useful purpose for bidders' addresses to be unnecessarily exposed to spammers, those running auction interference, and bottom feeders. I don't know how to help the sellers in this regard, but at least most eBay users would suffer less annoying intrusions, and in blocking most interference and bottomfeeding, the honest majority of eBay sellers would likely benefit.
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
[ Minor edit. ]
[ edited by dc9a320 on Oct 26, 2000 06:56 AM ]
