posted on May 31, 2004 01:14:11 AM new
Just received this little doozie by email & reported them to eBay. The body of the email is a GIF, not text, so I couldn't do a copy/paste. Ended up saving it as a picture so you all could see it:
Note the spelling: "submiting" "informations"
The headers have it coming from Taiwan, if I read the abbreviation correctly:
Status: U
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mail.fnjh.tcc.edu.tw ([163.17.43.32])
by sparrow (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1buCsB5dT3NZFjV0
posted on May 31, 2004 11:31:44 AM new
You betcha.
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posted on May 31, 2004 11:33:13 AM newIs this what other countries are teaching in their schools?
I would venture that it is a schoolemployee or student using the computer in a little extra-curricular money-making scheme.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
posted on May 31, 2004 12:29:07 PM new
I wish I knew how to copy the email that I got and show it here - does anybody know how to do that? Mine said:
Final notice - update your account to avoid service cancellation!
The funny thing was, when I went to forward it to spoof@ebay, there's a email address line that's filled out and it's not mine! Think it's from the scammer? [email protected]
Wouldn't that be funny if it was? Kind of like leaving your wallet when you rob a store.
posted on May 31, 2004 12:53:24 PM new
I am convinced sending these things to e bay is a real WASTE of our time. They know and 3 years later this crap still comes. E bay replies with a carbon copy response. I have asked them for a REAL answere as to their efforts to end this. There never has been one. I no longer waste my time.
There is NO LAW againsr spamming. Stealing information IS. I just heard that on the radio the other day. Earthlink proudly touted they had busted a spammer who was sent to jail for 7,,,,,,,,years! whooooope,,,,,He was sent to jail NOT for spamming as Earthlink would like to have you believe (as if they had a hand in it) Idenity Theft and Falsification of RECORDS was what landed him in jail.
Phil Hendry USE to read their Advertisements on the radio. Earthlinks contract expired...
He kicked them RIGHT in the CAN and EXPOSED their out and out LIES!
posted on May 31, 2004 04:28:31 PM new
I think part of the trouble is that most of these scam e-mails originate overseas somewhere and it is difficult to prosecute them for fraud and theft unless their own country does it. They don't even have to be an e-bay member
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