WARNING NEW ebay Scam...

Tour2ma
Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Even though it does not ask for the usual info, I think it's a scam... probably to load a trojan horse onto your PC....

1. This is my old ebay addy, not my current one
2. Sender misspelled a word
3. I passed 100 points a long time ago...

The kicker is boldfaced...
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Forwarded it to spoof@ebay.com
More later,
Tour...
Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited October 2004
    Hmmm.......i got one of those similar just after I turned 10 feedback, so I don't know that it's a scam. If I remember correctly though, I had gone through Ebay to get it.........

    What's the email addy that came from?
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited October 2004
    I also was notified once by ebay when I hit a rating of 100... But message did not instruct me to download my star...

    Here's the message source info if that's what you are asking for...

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    Status: U
    Return-Path: <eBay.97276927.65837.0@reply.ebay.com>
    Received: from camp6.sjc.ebay.com ([216.33.244.105])
    by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1a7Yfh24T3NZFji0
    for <tour2ma@earthlink.net>; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
    Received: from [10.112.159.34] (dingdong-5.sjc.ebay.com [10.112.160.34] (may be forged))
    by camp6.sjc.ebay.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h9AEDXEG023981
    for <tour2ma@earthlink.net>; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:27:44 -0700
    From: "eBay" <eBay@reply.ebay.com>
    Reply-to: eBay.97276927.65837.0@reply.ebay.com

    --1065796064494.MimeBoundarY
    Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
    Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
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    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited October 2004
    Pretty generic, but...
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    Hello,

    Thank you for writing to eBay.

    As you may have already suspected, the email you received did not originate from eBay. These emails are commonly referred to as "spoofs" and are sent in an attempt to collect sensitive personal information. We have reported this email to the appropriate authorities as eBay has no control over Web pages located outside of our site.

    etc., etc., etc.
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    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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