posted on February 7, 2004 08:57:11 PM new
I don't know what's going on with all the scam email lately, but I've gotten three separate ones just today. The first two were eBay Verification Requests asking for my user name and password (which I immediately sent to [email protected]) and the the latest one is the following message - also sent to [email protected]. Please everyone, don't fall for these scams and make sure you report them to eBay to prevent some poor unfortunate eBay member from falling for it. Here's the latest one I received...
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Dear eBay member,
This is an automated message sent to you by eBay Billing Update.
We have recently tried to VeriCharge your credit or debit card we have on record for $0.01, and the charge was declined. The $0.01 charge is only to confirm that the credit or debit card that you submitted to eBay is current. The charge being declined was likely caused by your credit card being over its limit or that the account has been cancelled.
In order for us to keep your account open we need to verify the status of your credit or debit card. In furtherance all flagged accounts will be given a full 48 hours prior to eBay suspending your account. We thank you for your response and look forward to continuing to serve you.
Please click here to proceed to our secure 128 bit SSL encrypted billing server.
posted on February 7, 2004 09:00:52 PM new
I got one this morning that was verrrry clever. It is an e-mail with the title line including the name of the administrator of our server!
"Please confirm. Joey [email protected]" Sender is someone I've never heard of, but I did look at it and sure enough they want me to increase the size of my Johnson. Duhhhhhh.
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"I have resolved to allow my friends their peculiarities." -- Samuel Johnson
If the link fails to open by simply click it , just copy it into the adress bar of your browser and press the enter key .
Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or
authenticate any information you provide to us. Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.
Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.
Regards,
Safeharbor Department,
eBay Inc
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the funky thing is, this isn't even my ebay email account, the one that got this email. hmp, which mean this is someone that knows me, or at least was my customer or my website visitor...
posted on February 8, 2004 04:29:23 PM newcta: and, of course, for those amongst us of a literary bent, there's that old stand-by of D.H.Lawrence's: "John Thomas", ala "Lady-C's L"!
