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Ebay scammers
posted by Steve on April 19, 2007 @ 7:35PM
Ok, these ebay scammers are getting pretty nasty. How do they figure out my email address and exactly what I've bid on? Have they broken in to something on ebay that allows them to get my email address? Or are they just guessing my email address, by sending out emails to every email that has my username followed by @gmail.com or @yahoo.com?
It's a bit tricky of them to know exactly what you are bidding on.
This is the first time I've run into it, and I've received two emails (totally different styles) from two different email addresses on two different auctions, in the past 3 days. Has anyone else seen this before?
Of course, when you read the note, you can tell it's fake, because they usually ask you to respond to their note, which would email them back directly. Also, any emails coming from ebay can be found on myebay.
But that's where they are now. The obvious next step is that they'll send these "second chance offers" to people, and when they click a link to respond, they get back to a website that looks exactly like the ebay website, except that, oops, they didn't have to login. Well, how many people will notice that? Maybe they'll assume they are still signed in. So, they click the "paypal" button on the website, you got to a fake paypal website, enter your credit card info (with the security code, of course), and boom, you've been scammed.
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