Re: [VFB] Ebay Fraud warning (NonFF)

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Tom, I receive an average of one post like that each month on Ebay. 
Also, I've received the same type "bogus" stuff from Earthlink, 
Microsoft and a couple of others.  I make it a practice to pass these 
"bogus" requests to the parent company. Each time I have received an 
email back thanking me for reporting the fraud and verifying that these 
attempts by unscrupulous parties was indeed fraudulent.  As you know, 
you cannot be too careful on the Internet.

JIMMY  D
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Tom Davenport wrote:

A couple of days ago I got an email in html that looked exactly like 
the eBay sign-in window, from a ebay.com address purporting to be a 
"random security check".  I was supposed to type in my username and 
password and respond.  Of course I didn't and forwarded it on to 
eBay's fraud alert email address.  The whole thing was bogus, but it 
was so convincing I'm sure it probably fooled a lot of people. It's 
worth remembering that no reputable on-line business will ever ask 
you  to type your username and password in response to  an email,  
phone call or whatever.  It also makes you hope there is a God so that 
people to perpetuate these scams will burn in hell.  It is usually 
some trusting elderly person who ends up being ripped off.


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