Paypal too! (was: EBAY fraud alert)

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Aug 30 00:32:00 2003

I was talking to a friend who got one of those "your credit card
information is invalid" type emails. Since he didn't have a credit card,
it was rather obvious is was fraudulent :).


rogersda_at_cox.net wrote:
>
> A similar scam was attempted on me about a month ago regarding my Paypal account. The *first* hint that it wasn't legit' was that it came to an email account other than the one Paypal knows me at.
>
> Dale (the DECdude)
>
> Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > 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 followed the link, noticed it wasn't in secure mode, and wondered why EBAY
> > would need my bank account number, routing/ABA numbers, not to mention SSN and
> > home address and credit card numbers, etc. The form asked for everything
> > imaginable. Yikes!
> >
> > Upon getting suspicious I checked the headers and html links in the message -
> > needless to say - NOT ebay. Watch out for this one! I did report it to the
> > spoof team at Ebay.
> >
> > Jay West
Received on Sat Aug 30 2003 - 00:32:00 BST