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New Member
United States
10 Posts |
Howdy Folks, First time posting here...unfortunately, my first post will be a warning to those purchasing coins on ebay. I made approx. 15 purchases in the last week. I received an email today from David Long, stating that he has sent me a $2.00 refund. It states: "Hi,My helper mailed you the wrong coin by accident,I am mailing yours out today,this refund is to mail me back the coin sent by mistake,I aplogize for the error,Take care and GOD BLESS.Dave". It then has a link: "Simply click https://www.paypal.com/us/links/uni and complete PayPal's easy registration form to claim your money." What is interesting is that the email was sent from my company's website. I know that because my ebay email header (ie, collector@mywebsite.com) is different from my business email header (info@mywebsite.com). It just shows that the phishers are using another technique and perusing ebay, attempting to get people to give out their info after purchases. Just wanted to warn folks and I look forward to posting some interesting questions in the near future. Warm regards, Jerkyg |
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Valued Member
Ireland
498 Posts |
Welcome jerkyg
Thanks for the warning
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
Welcome jerkyg I spend a few hours reading about complete email headers If you call up the complete email header by righclicking on the title and clicking properties you will see that there are several ways to fraudulently get falls senders One way is to use the HELLO function which seems to break into many mail delivery chains Others are by way off open servers and you find the notition in the header "may be fake" All these emails seem to have one thing in common that is an Authentication warning that mailmaster set the sender to .......... and their you get the name of the fake sender ......using -f For the moment somebody is tryning to scam my wife She bought perfume Vendor only sent a bankaccount number Upon request a name was provided and money transferred Once the object was marked as paid in my ebayAnother email arrived with another name They probably want to pocket the money and mark her as non paying buyer So I immidiately warned ebay somebody is trying to sell in somebody elses name and we are being scammed |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
I get these phishing emails all the time and even though its aggravating I send each and everyone of them to spoof@paypal.com or if it happens to be a ebay phishing email I send it to spoof@ebay.com. A very easy way to tell if it is from the company is they will use your name, the phishing emails just usually use "dear Valued Customer" or something to that effect |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
oh yeah! welcome to the forum
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1360 Posts |
Welcome to the forum jerkyg, and thanks for the timely warning!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1582 Posts |
Bryan, I do exactly the same thing as you after I've checked my messages on ebay. If it's not there, it's not from ebay, and I forward it on to them as a possible spoof. Ralph |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
yeah like I said it starts to get annoying and I sometimes wonder why the heck I do it, but I always do send them to the appropriate spoof@*** so maybe they can get the page shut down before someone else gets the email and clicks on the link and puts their information in
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
jerkyg, Welcome to the forum. I have received many, many of the fraudulent ebay e-mails, and have reported them all. There's no way of telling, but I wonder if the crooks ever get caught? |
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New Member
 United States
10 Posts |
Thanks all for the welcome.  I too have received many spoof ebay and paypal mails. the only difference with this one is that it referred to my recent purchasing of coins. so, these scum bags are getting trickier. whether they get caught...i doubt it. most are located in europe or old soviet countries. warm coin regards, jerkyg |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
Thanks for warning us all.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
5385 Posts |
Welcome to the forum jerkyg & thanks for the warning.
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Valued Member
United States
458 Posts |
Hello and Welcome to our forum!! Over the years I have been getting these phishing trips from these low life scum bags. Not only from PP and ebay, but recently I have been bombarded with these emails from England and China telling me that I won this and that lottery, whan you go to the actual REAL site the numbers they used were not winners. They then ask for your personnal info, name addy etc, they don't ask for credit card numbers or bank numbers so I am not sure how this scam works out. Then other phishing telling me that joe blow need a US representative to transferr funds into and promise you 10% on these funds for my "effort". These idiots do ask for everything about you phone number etc, but these idiots also want my bank account number. LOL. I usually reply with a NASTY scathing reply telling them how much I love their mother, know what I mean?  Finally, I was receiving a bunch of emails, sometimes 6 a day with these stupid recommendation on stock to buy. LOL, tried for months to block these losers, was impossible to do--very frustrating, not even mcafee spamkiller could stop them, software just catches as spam--Then this week all of a sudden, all of these spams, phishing has stopped--weird--  |
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Pillar Of The Community
3147 Posts |
I get ebay and PayPal scams almost weekly. For a long period of time I forwarded them to ebay at spoof@ebay.com but they just keep coming so know I delete them all. If you do think you have a problem with either account just go to your account and see if there is a problem there! DO NOT EVER click on any address provided in the email. Protect yourself! |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
Terry
I even went one step further I turned off HTML on my outlook express because with HTML turned on the computer will send a cookie to the sender that the message has been looked at and he got a life one on the other end of his message
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Posted 11/16/2006 05:18 am
