Scam Alert!!

[SS]Deadeye-R · 01-14-2004

This is relevant to anyone who is an E-bay member. I received an Email yesterday 'supposedly' from Ebay. This email asks you to update your profile for security reasons. I didn't follow the link, but I have heard that if you do follow the link it will ask you for password confirmation and other relevant info. From this the person that is running the scam will advertise items under your name and scam the person that buys them. Obviously ebay will come after you when the fraud claim is filed

Please be aware of this scam and DO NOT follow that link if you receive the email. I know our very own SportoFu got the same email I while ago.

If you get one go here: http://pages.ebay.ca/education/spooftutorial/

[SS]SportoFu · 01-14-2004

Yeah man, I wasn't thinking and I totally fell for it. I knew there were a LOT of scams going on and thought they might actually be DOING a security check.
Anyways, the person that did it changed my email addy, and I received a change of email notice. I contacted ebay and they fixed the account.
The weird thing is he changed the email acct. to jordevan29@yahoo.com........so he got my name AND age somehow! Who knows what ELSE that mf got.

[SS]Arkangel · 01-14-2004

Be on the lookout for Paypal scams, too.
I got one about a month ago.

[SS]Grifter · 01-14-2004

Yea...I got both...the Paypal one and the EBay one...I never fill that stuff out......

[SS]ProXimo · 01-15-2004

Thanks for the information. This is good to know. It's easy not to think about it sometimes and you can fall for something without knowing it.

01-14-2004	#1
[SS]Deadeye-R 100% Canadian Beef Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Saskatoon,SK, Canada Posts: 979	Scam Alert!! This is relevant to anyone who is an E-bay member. I received an Email yesterday 'supposedly' from Ebay. This email asks you to update your profile for security reasons. I didn't follow the link, but I have heard that if you do follow the link it will ask you for password confirmation and other relevant info. From this the person that is running the scam will advertise items under your name and scam the person that buys them. Obviously ebay will come after you when the fraud claim is filed Please be aware of this scam and DO NOT follow that link if you receive the email. I know our very own SportoFu got the same email I while ago. If you get one go here: http://pages.ebay.ca/education/spooftutorial/ Last edited by [SS]Deadeye-R : 01-14-2004 at 04:03 PM.

01-14-2004	#3
[SS]Arkangel angermeans Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: long island Posts: 458	Be on the lookout for Paypal scams, too. I got one about a month ago. Peaceful confrontation meet War Machine. "You tremble, carcass? You would tremble even more if you knew where I am going to take you" - Vicomte de Turenne "... the Earth hath skin, and the skin hath diseases. One of these... is called man" - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "Uproar east - strike west" - Sheng Tung, Chi Hsi "Remind the gods of my name. I believe there is one seat left for me" - In Flames

01-14-2004	#4
[SS]Grifter Infidel Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 6,611	Yea...I got both...the Paypal one and the EBay one...I never fill that stuff out...... “Weapons down or I will not be responsible for what comes next.” - Captain America

01-14-2004	#2
[SS]SportoFu Canadian Chuck Norris Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SK. Canada Posts: 4,731	Yeah man, I wasn't thinking and I totally fell for it. I knew there were a LOT of scams going on and thought they might actually be DOING a security check. Anyways, the person that did it changed my email addy, and I received a change of email notice. I contacted ebay and they fixed the account. The weird thing is he changed the email acct. to jordevan29@yahoo.com........so he got my name AND age somehow! Who knows what ELSE that mf got.

01-15-2004	#5
[SS]ProXimo Proximo Studios Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Sachse, TX Posts: 1,996	Thanks for the information. This is good to know. It's easy not to think about it sometimes and you can fall for something without knowing it.

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