From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 07:23:21 PST
Being the evil son of a bitch that my ex-wife claims I am, what I do is to
provide them with a fictitious credit card #, user name and password. I like
to think of how that must frustrate them for a while.
Arthur P. "Born on a Thursday, but not last Thursday" Bloom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Ebay problem
> At 3:01 PM +0000 1/6/06, 42Ford GPW wrote:
> >Hello List,
> >
> >I just got an email from Ebay about someone trying to use my
> >ebay name to bid on things. They asked me to go to an Ebay site and
> >verify certain Credit Card / Debit Card issues. But they are asking my
for my PIN number
> >for my debit card and things like that.
>
> This sounds like a phishing attempt. The url they give you looks like
E-Bay, but it's not. Do NOT enter your pin/login information nor your credit
card info.
>
> The way they get the url to look right is that the E-bay url is embedded
into the URL for their site. Most likely just an IP address. They build a
web page that has the right look and when people go there, if they don't
look closely, they'll think they were on E-Bay.
>
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