Perhaps this has come up before and I missed it.
Today was a gorgeous day here in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I
took the snake out at lunch time to meet up with a fellow local Shelby
club member to return a valve adjusting tool to him I had borrowed
quite some time ago. While we were kicking tires and chatting, he got
a cell phone call from another club member about a problem he was
currently in the process of resolving with his credit card company.
He had recently bid on something on EBay and soon afterwards had
received an e-mail saying that there was some problem with his credit
card verification and could he visit the EBay site and re-submit his
credit
card information. The message included a supposed link to EBay
where he could re-enter his credit card number, etc. Turns out this was
a fake link to some credit card scammer's site. He ended up with a
bunch of fraudulent charges being charged against his account.
Fortunately
he was able to get these charges removed, but it was a big hassle, and a
very stressful experience.
Be on the lookout for this scam if you have bid on anything on EBay
recently.
Roland
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