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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" <[email protected]> To: "Mike Tomasura" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> 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 like > 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 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 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > https://cgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInformation > > > <https://e%31bay.com/saw-cgi/?UpdateInformation> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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