EBAY fraud alert

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Aug 29 18:16:01 2003

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> This is a rather common scam that has been going on for about a year or
> so. It has spread to PayPal, and is one of the rationalizations that
> ebay is using to force all users to change from email address IDs to an
> alias. If Ebay is doing anything about these scams, they are keeping it
> a secret.

On the "My eBay" pages, there is occasionally a link near the top, to a
warning (with little or no real information) about "email spoofing"
that is specifically about it.
Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 18:16:01 BST