pointy
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posted on October 25, 2002 06:42:52 PM new
I received an e-mail from [email protected] a little while ago. Not asking for passwords, but very suspicious anyway. I'd rather not go into details at this point, but....Has anyone else received any unusual e-mails from [email protected]
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askdaruma
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posted on October 25, 2002 07:45:04 PM new
does it ask you to go to a website-note the URL,if it is not a secure website,then it is not payapl.
i have not received any such email,you must be a popular person,i envy you
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thchaser200
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posted on October 25, 2002 07:48:02 PM new
Can you give us any more information, maybe the URL it is asking or for more information.
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pointy
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posted on October 25, 2002 08:51:39 PM new
It's not asking for passwords. It's not directing me to any web site. It's letting me know that a "new paypal user" has sent me a certain amount via wire transfer(which just happens to be my reserve price, which no one could know)as payment for this item in my auction. It gives me an e-mail address to contact this person and tells me I have 3 days to decide if I will accept the payment. There are no bids in the auction in question. The e-mail is not a registered user. PayPal has investigated quickly and confirmed it's a scam. Ebay says they need to wait for a top supervisor. Maybe tomorrow...maybe Monday
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paloma91
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posted on October 25, 2002 09:48:26 PM new
GEEZ, that is really scarey! Good thing paypal responding so quickly! Let us know what happens or if you get anymore info on this. Thanks so much for sharing.
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sparkz
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posted on October 25, 2002 09:59:39 PM new
It looks and sounds like someone is trying to creat their own version of a " Buy It Now " auction. A new twist to the practice of emailing you to end the auction early. I hope you're not entertaining any thoughts of dealing with this person?
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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vitasales
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posted on October 25, 2002 11:08:33 PM new
In the past I have recieved emails saying they were from paypal and that they had made some changes and I needed to log into paypal and change my password and gave a link. The funny thing is the link was a .UK URL. Which gave it away as a scam.
Two days ago I had a phone call recorded on my answering machine which said they were with PayPal security and needed me to call. She left a number, I called the number but it was out of order.
Be Careful.
Mike
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sanmar
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posted on October 25, 2002 11:19:59 PM new
Did you go into your acct & see if there was a payment made? If it didn't start https, then it wasn't from P/P
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rarriffle
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posted on October 26, 2002 01:43:53 AM new
I received a phone call on Wedn. night from someone at Paypal security asking me to verify my last 4 transactions on my debit card. They didn't ask about numbers, pin number or transaction amount. The lady just listed the places that we had used the debit card and asked if that was correct. She then thanked me and said goodbye. I was also informed that the conversation was being recorded.
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thchaser200
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posted on October 26, 2002 04:25:20 AM new
It sounds like what some credit card companies do and that is contact the card holder to verify some of the charges on the card.
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sn0bbish
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posted on October 26, 2002 05:06:34 AM new
i received a call like that when i 1st started using my pp debit card. making sure i was the person using it and not someone else i guess. i havent received one since and i use it all the time.
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rgrem
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posted on October 26, 2002 06:21:26 AM new
A looooong time ago, when I had a CC maxed out, I was in New York on business and the CC folks were trying to find out if I was going to pay the overcharges. They called my home and got my wife, who said they'd have to talk to me. Then the CC woman, I guess trying to cause some trouble, asked, "do you know that your husband is at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, still using the card?" My wife said "well, that's where he had better be! Thanks for letting me know."
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pointy
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posted on October 26, 2002 08:11:39 AM new
This was not a phone call...it was an e-mail from [email protected]. . .
It was not directing me to any site, paypal or otherwise. My immediate thought was that the potential buyer was trying to create their own "Buy it Now". But the amount in question exceeds any single transaction Paypal limit. And the entire e-mail was "off" just enough to make my first reaction a call to PayPal. I smeeled a scam, which PayPal has confirmed. The fact that they had my reserve pegged is quite concerning. This implies a breach of security at Ebay as well. Again, has anyone else received an e-mail from [email protected]?
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redvving
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posted on October 27, 2002 05:41:10 AM new
Go to the item and check "bid history"... if a person places a high bid and then retracts it they will find out your reserve and the auction page will appear normal...
just a thought on how they pegged your reserve.
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pointy
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posted on October 27, 2002 10:32:42 AM new
That did not happen redwing. In this auction there have been no bids, no retractions, no e-mails asking me what my reserve was. And it's not a type of item that one could make an informed guess of the reserve. It's possible.....could be a coincidence...but unlikely.
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It's looking more and more like Ebay was hacked into. All my other passwords are secure. No unusual activity. I run anti-virus software with constant updates. Since I changed my password on Ebay after receiving the initial email my account has had over 100 unsucessful log-ons.
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