EBAY fraud alert

From: Wesley Widner <kai_at_techie.com>
Date: Fri Aug 29 14:58:01 2003

I'm a firm believer that all users of the internet should be required to
obtain a license from their federal government. Basics rules should be
taught before the license is issued as well; like: "no, there is no
widow in Nigeria who wants to give you x million dollars", and: "no,
Bill Gates won't give you money if you forward this email to anyone".
There should also be "internet police" who have the power to go to
someone who has violated one of these rules and thwap them over the head
with a 'giant foam cluebat'(TM).
Just my $.02...

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---Wesley Widner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Bob Lafleur
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:34 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: EBAY fraud alert
> 
> 
> I've seen similar things now "from" other organizations, such 
> as banks. (ones I don't even have accounts for, but the 
> messages are just mass E-mailed, hoping they'll hit some targets).
> 
> It's really too bad this has happened to E-mail. Almost every 
> message now has to be treated as "guilty until proven 
> innocent". Sometimes I think it's time to throw in the towel 
> on E-mail as a form of communication. Oh well.
> 
>   - Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: EBAY fraud alert
> 
> 
> > > I recently got an email from the "Ebay security audit team" or
> > > something to
> >> that affect. Says they periodically verify contact information, and
> >> couldn't verify mine, asking me to follow a link to update 
> my account
> 
> >> or it would be disabled in 5 days.
> >
> >I reported the same thing to eBay about 2 months ago. Whats worse,
> >about a week ago I got the same thing from PayPal !
> >
> >So, take care, and NEVER give your accountnumber away, or 
> follow those
> >links
> 
> The scum have been doing this for months.  The eBay ones are 
> the most common, I've lost track of how many I've gotten.  
> The PayPal ones so far are far less common, I've only gotten 
> one or two of them.
> 
> 			Zane
> 
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