posted on October 22, 2001 11:38:37 AM
I just got this letter from "ebay" asking me to login and give them my password... Yeah right....
Here's the letter...
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
([email protected]) on Monday, October 22, 2001 at 02:59:00
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: Dear Ebay Member,
We were unable to process your eBay Account because your eBay ID or Password is invalid in our system. We are constantly updating our database due to maintenance. It often happen every friday 1AM-3AM.
This problem may occur by random. Please click <a href="66.96.174.100">here</a> and try Logging on eBay. If it doesn't work the first time, it should work the second time. Sorry for this delay.
eBay Support Team
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Notice the errors "It often happen" "This problem may occur by random." "Please click (broken hypertext)"
posted on October 22, 2001 01:20:46 PM
Here is a nasty auction scam that takes advantage of the way egold works.
Egold is a payment service similar to paypal but with a few significant differences. 1) It is based on gold. When you open an egold account, you are actually buying a quantity of gold. If the price changes, the value in your account changes. 2) The price you pay depends upon the quantity purchased. The more you buy, the better price you get. 3) There is a minimum amount which must be purchased. 4) Payments are made to account numbers. You don't see the name of the recipient. 5) Payments are non-refundable. If you pay the wrong account by accident, it's too bad.
Because of these factors, it is common for people to open egold accounts with large purchases and then sell them in smaller blocks to investors who can't come up with the minimum purchase. There are also sellers who accept egold for their auctions. If you win one of their auctions and don't want to open an egold account, you might pay an existing account holder who accepts paypal to act as a middleman and ask him to then pay your seller.
A well known egold seller received several emails from someone telling him that some payments for egold were on their way and giving him an egold account number in which to deposit these payments. He then received some money orders and payments via other payment services, just as he had been told. He began depositing egold payments in the account that he had been instructed to fund. Along comes a money order with a note reading, "this is for the digital camera on ebay."
Now this egold seller does not sell anything on ebay. So he called the person who had included his name and phone number along with the money order. He was shocked to discover that a seller had been offering all sorts of popular and expensive items on ebay and instructing his winners to send checks, money orders and electronic payments to this egold seller. The egold seller had then sent off non-refundable payments to an annonymous egold account. The actual scammer remains completely untraceable and the egold seller is on the hook for a few thousand dollars.
The moral of the story:
-know who you are doing business with. Buyers should not have been bidding on the expensive items of a brand new seller with a hotmail address and no ratings.
-always include some basic information with a payment, particularly who you are and what the payment is for. If the first few buyers had done this, the whole scheme would never have worked.
posted on October 22, 2001 02:38:06 PM
Hey, I got one of those today. But it was in my hotmail account and since my hotmail account is not associated with ebay in any way, I deleted the email....
They must be sending it out randomly looking for suckers or something.
posted on October 22, 2001 06:32:25 PM
midewestmagazines, if you want to report them to their ISP, I did a whois and got the contact inof. Email me @home.com.
posted on October 22, 2001 09:17:26 PM
Hey you people,
When you see this in an e-mail, it is a scam.
"Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
([email protected]) on Monday, October 22, 2001 at 02:59:00 "
These people are sending out fake e-mails to try to get credit card information, login codes, promote porn, etc.
They can enter ANY e-mail address in their program so it looks like it is coming from a legit source.
I received one of these and the SENDING e-mail address was mine!!! They must be "harvesting" e-mails and sending them out in bulk to auction users/sellers, AOL accounts, etc.
