Yeah, that was kind of a bad topic name but yeah. I just got this email I thought I would share with everyone:
Dear еBay Customer
Thank you for submitting the requested information about your account. We have compared the information that you have supplied and the ATM Pin number is not the same as the one in our records.
To ensure that your account is not compromised please login to Account by clicking this link, verify your identity, your account information and supply a valid ATM Pin number in order to get your acount reactivated by our system.
Click Here
- Enter your personal information and supply a valid ATM Pin number.
- Verify your identity with Ebаy Service
If at any time you require assistance, please contact our Online Account Services customer hotline at 1-800-984-6558 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Thank you for using Ebаy Account .
Sincerely,
Genevieve Smith - Security Department
The Ebаy Team
Also, the "Click Here" led to http://www.fivaxis.com/set2/index.htm . I didn't click it, thought it might be a virus =P.
I also never sent anything to Ebay about any personal things =P.
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 Mar 24 2005, 9:29 am
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Mar 24 2005, 9:40 am
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It is a mockup of the ebay login site. I just went to it. The address is clearly not that of paypal. I have no idea why someone would fall for this.
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Scoobert wrote:
It is a mockup of the ebay login site. I just went to it. The address is clearly not that of paypal. I have no idea why someone would fall for this. And I have no idea how people could fall for any email-virus. People are just careless. Animate CLICK HERE in cool colors and they'll click. Paranoia is the only way to stay sane on the net. /Gazoot | |
http://www.scoobsoft.com/ScreenShots/fake.png
There you go, thats what you get. (PS, My desktop rocks) | |
Just so people know, in IE, somehow the url in the address bar changes to show the legit ebay login url. So don't be fooled even though the address bar makes it seem real. I put in my username with a fake password, and it let me in.
Right click, and go to properties, it'll show the real address. | |
Gazoot wrote:
And I have no idea how people could fall for any email-virus. People are just careless. Animate CLICK HERE in cool colors and they'll click. People have to be quite sophisticated these days to not fall for all the frauds and viruses. How does the typical person determine whether an email from, say, PayPal or Bank of America is real or not? They use the same graphics, the same language, apparently the same URL, etc -- and sometimes you get real email from them as a customer. Some of these emails even make it look like the real URL when you look at the raw content of the mail message, by putting http://www.paypal.com@[bunch of code character that don't look like a URL] -- how is someone's Grandmother who uses her email to communicate with her grandkids going to know that's not real? The smart scammers often use subjects that some percentage of the recipients will be waiting for. So you get an email from "Steve" saying "Here's the picture of the kids" and, what do you know, you were one of the .00002% of people they spammed who actually was waiting for a guy named Steve to send you a picture of someone's kids, so you open the attachment. I completely understand why people fall for this stuff, and I'm hopeful that the ever-growing wave of fraud and spam doesn't find a way to squash the incredible usefulness of the web. | |
Deadron wrote:
I completely understand why people fall for this stuff, and I'm hopeful that the ever-growing wave of fraud and spam doesn't find a way to squash the incredible usefulness of the web. Before spam and fraud it was pipe bombs and porn. The internet will never be the 'information superhighway' people dreamed of, and it will always face these sorts of problems, but it's still probably one of the most useful things created by mankind. | |
Deadron wrote:
People have to be quite sophisticated these days to not fall for all the frauds and viruses. How does the typical person determine whether an email from, say, PayPal or Bank of America is real or not? I would say never communicate anything vital over an unsecure line. People are suspicious about many things in real life, why not on the net? It doesn't make sense to me. Some of these emails even make it look like the real URL when you look at the raw content of the mail message, by putting http://www.paypal.com@[bunch of code character that don't look like a URL] -- how is someone's Grandmother who uses her email to communicate with her grandkids going to know that's not real? I put my hopes in her common sense. Does granny have a paypal account? If yes, she should be aware of the risks, and that just like in real life, she could be fooled by anyone with a sharp suit and a big smile. The smart scammers often use subjects that some percentage of the recipients will be waiting for. So you get an email from "Steve" saying "Here's the picture of the kids" and, what do you know, you were one of the .00002% of people they spammed who actually was waiting for a guy named Steve to send you a picture of someone's kids, so you open the attachment. Here the email client will hopefully warn you that it is an executable attachment. But I know, sometimes people send executable files to each other... And they also ignore any warning alert box completely. But they have to learn the hard way. Yippee, more jobs for the computer techs. I completely understand why people fall for this stuff, and I'm hopeful that the ever-growing wave of fraud and spam doesn't find a way to squash the incredible usefulness of the web. I don't understand it quite as you do. If people just learn to be paranoid on the net, things should work. And I'm glad to see email clients like Thunderbird taking steps to help users be more careful. /Gazoot | |