posted on February 12, 2005 06:58:21 AM
I just have to rant...I got up this morning to 11 phish emails! This is getting absurd. The Ebay usual "TKO" notices, the Paypal terribly misspelled notices, the Wamu "standart" confirm your personal info notice, and the U.S. Bank "yer acownt informations" notice. Heaven forbid these scammers learn how to spell because the emails look so "official".
We have other banks that we do business with, but we have not gotten one single fraudulent email from them, only the banks that are tied to my Ebay and Paypal accounts. I wonder how safe our personal information is with Ebay and Paypal?
posted on February 12, 2005 08:33:21 AM
That has nothing to do with ebay, as far as banks go. I get all sorts of these messages with banks I deal with, and those I don't - Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to stop them, because there are enough morons out there who blindly give out their info. I have friends call me and ask my advice on these, even after I tell them NEVER to respond to an inquiry via email. If you have a question, contact your bank or whoever directly. I also tell them that ebay suspends first, and asks questions later. I stopped counting how many of these I get a day, they all get filtered into my junk folder and just deleted.
posted on February 12, 2005 09:50:11 AM
The two I got today took the cake...claimed to be from Citibank but had the Ebay links footer at the bottom.
You know, maybe the "war on terror" is being fought in the wrong place. Maybe a couple of strikes in Romania (or wherever else the phisers servers are located) would get rid of the real terrorists!
posted on February 12, 2005 11:07:34 AM"Gimme an F..."
"Who could have possibly envisioned an erection — an election in Iraq at this point in history?" Prez.Jim Beam, at the White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005
posted on February 12, 2005 01:24:57 PM
Gimme a Chaka Kahn, Chaka Kahn....
As for da phish...
I noticed that when I don't have auctions running for awhile, I get ZERO trash emails. But the minute I list a a 7 day auction, my mailbox starts filling up. Whatz up wit dat???
Seriously, I didn't list for 2 months and after after about the first week, no more spam. Then in January, I started listing again and it took about a day to start getting the trash.
Do we have someone with a web-bot harvesting emails from ask seller a question? Is there an open door somewhere on ebay's seller Id? What is it ???
I have stopped reply to "ask seller a guestion" emails from my inbox. I will only reply to them thru the Ebay site and when I do, I select the "hide my address" option.
I've begun to suspect that more than half of the international shipping inquiries I receive are not people really wanting to win my auction. I think it is people building a mailing list. Well, count me out!
I'm really not paranoid. I KNOW they are out to get me.
