Rick,
Same thing happened to me shortly after posting some old Corvette parts on
e-bay. I received an e-mail from what looked like e-bay stating that someone in
some Bs place in Africa was attempting to access my account and that I would
need to "click on the link below" to rectify the problem by confirming my
information. I have to say that the e-mail looked really good, but then I
realized
that the lowest section of the printed page was a slightly different font
than the standard e-bay font and figured the e-mail to the Bs that it really
was.
I forwarded it to the safe harbor group at e-bay, who responded to me almost
immediately confirming it was a fraud. What a bunch of frigid low lifes. I'd
hate to think of how may people actually fall for this crap.
Fred Greco
In a message dated 12/21/2005 11:52:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
rickyocum@earthlink.net writes:
ho-ho-ho don't i know! last week i had my pay-pal password hacked and pay
pal suspended my ability to acess my account! this prompted my calling
them via phone to find out what happened!
I got an email telling me another email address had been added to my account
and to respond if this wasn't proper. Of course, the email gave me a
connection to click. Looked legit, so I connected to it and, first sign
that something wass a miss, it switched me to a "new site" where I was asked
for my email and password to enter paypal.
I decided to use my email (which they already had) and make up a password.
Surprise, I was logged in. And guess what? - I had been eselected for a
"random audit" to ensure my account was up-to-date. All I had to do was
enter the credit card number I was using with Paypal and they would check it
against their records.
My first instinct was to make up a number, but I decided I had had enough
and got out of the site.
So far I haven't seen any false charges, although I am going to check it out
today.
Rick Yocum
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