Yup. They hope that the message contents are a coincidence and scare you into seeing (i.e. clicking on..) what's it's about. This happened to me a few years ago where I changed my ebay password, and about 30 minutes later got a phishing email that my password change failed. So I clicked the link and re-did it. As soon as I clicked on the submit button I noticed that the URl I was forwarded to was to some server in Russia. /facepalm. I went and sheepishly changed my ebay password AGAIN that very moment, with a bit of awe towards the clever con I had fallen into. Luckily I noticed. But how many others didn't? -B On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it's a troll, trying to shock you into clicking on something.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Nick Olsen <nick@flhsi.com> wrote:
I think it might just be coincidence. I've gotten about 10 of them and haven't been to ebay or amazon in months. Most of them have been for >60 dollar books.
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---------------------------------------- From: "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:28 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: EBAY and AMAZON
I have received bogus emails from both of the above on Friday.
These look like I bought something that in both cases I did not buy. The EBAY was a golf club for $887 and the Amazon was a novel for $82, far more than I would have spent on either.
I think I looked at the novel on Amazon and I remember the golf club came up on a search with something else on Ebay.
How this information could get to someone spoofing is a little disconcerting.
I have changed EBAY and Paypal Passwords as instructed.
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