It happened to me last week. Someone put up for sale 4 tickets to the Hannah Montana show, that appeared to be from me!! In the post was a message that if someone wanted to BUY THEM NOW, they had to contact so and so, and his email was given. If they did that, they obviously would be told to send money immediately to that person. Of course there were no tickets, but that is the racket. Also note that the "auction" was for only for 24 hrs (guess why). The bidding was already up to $300 before I had a chance to notify eBay (who pulled it), and change my password. Ray
----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Record Price for Edison Army-Navy?? > > In a message dated 10/24/2007 10:58:29 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > No, I get them all the time, but being the naturally suspicious fellow > that > I am, I have never fallen for one of them, and send them immediately to > [email protected] , so I can't imagine in this day and age of crooks, > thieves, > and con artists on the internet, that anyone in their right mind falls > for > that CRAP!! and wondered whether there was another way that these > hijackers > were lifting peoples passwords. > > Bruce > > > Bruce, I had my eBay identity AND password hijacked recently and someone > used it to put a bunch of Mercedes, Jaguars and Rovers up on eBay for > sale by > ......me! I still haven't figured out how they would benefit from this. > But > I was told by eBay that you don't even have to click on the links given > on > the phishing site for them to find your password. You just have to OPEN > a > phishing email for them to gain that information. I certainly don't > understand > how they can do that. I'm opening fewer emails now! > ---Art Heller > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >
