this is most definitely a combination credit card & ebay account scam.. this has happened numerous times over the last year and, in many cases the offender has also used the hijacked account information to offer items for sale & setup phoney escrow companies to lull the purchaser into putting up the funds.. the scale of this fraud is, frankly, huge, but many companies like ebay & paypal downplay it to avoid tainting the legitimacy of their respective businesses ken stubbs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> To: "Mike Tomasura" <MTomasura@BradleyCaldwell.com>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Re: FW: e-bay
Its sad how many people get taken in by obvious and less obvious scams
this.... But I guess this is as old as the "knock knock: Wallet inspector."... There was a similar paypal scam that had "click here to go to www.paypal.com" which looked and displayed nice and legit in the email, but the href really sent you to a site in Korea that looked exactly like the paypal login screen.... "Thank you for verifying your information".... Indeed!
---Mike
At 12:25 PM 26/09/2003, Mike Tomasura wrote:
I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from
like them.
Dear eBay user!
At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number of accounts in the system during the database maintenance. If you have an active account, please click on the link below to update your credit card information. If you have problems with your account, please let us
know
at email support@ebay.com <mailto:support@ebay.com>
https://cgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInformation <https://e%31bay.com/saw-cgi/?UpdateInformation>