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| From | "Ken West" <ken@powerpop.org> |
| Subject | Re: ebay scam |
| Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:30:46 -0800 |
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yes, I contacted Ebay. What I found strange in trying to investigate this
was there seems a similar plot that was somewhat publicized back in
December. What I found odd is that Ebay didn't make many outward efforts to
let users know that this had happened. The only way to avoid it happening
was to be smarter than the scammer OR read about it in the news.
Scary.......
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: ebay scam
> thanks for the Heads up, Ken. Did you advise the folks at eBay, too? My
> guess is they'll respond vigorously. They're probably already aware, but I
> know the diffusion of responsibility literature pretty well: so better to
> take it on yourself.
>
> -craig
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken West [mailto:ken@powerpop.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: ebay scam
>
>
> Up until today, I've only read of such scams happening but today I was an
> intended victim and thought I'd share this. I was sent an email that
looked
> pretty official and sent me to a web site (http://ebay.interpool.us/) that
> looks pretty damned official. It all looked pretty legit until I got to
the
> part where they asked for my ATM pin#, SS# and drivers license. Here's the
> text of the email.
>
> Dear valued ebay member ken :
>
> It has come to our attention that your ebay Billing information's
> records are out of date. thats require update your billing information's
> If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and
> update.
> Your billing records you will not run into any future problems with the
> problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records
> will result in
> account termination. Please update your records by tomorrow.
>
> Once you have updated your account records your ebay session will not be
> interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in
> cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future
billing
> problems.
>
> Please click here to update your billing records.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> Marry Kimmel
> ebay Billing Dept team.
>
>
> Be carefull out there kids!!!!
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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