[Spridgets] eBay Scam

Robert Duquette robertduquette at sympatico.ca
Tue Feb 19 06:57:35 MST 2008


I don't know if any arrests resulted, but I notified my bank about a 
spoofing email I had received and they had the offending website down within 
a few hours.

>From: "63AHBJ7" <63AHBJ7 at comcast.net>
>
><<Can they stop them?>>
>
>They DO get lucky once in a blue moon, tho David.
>
>And I  DID enjoy it!!!!
>
>Below is what I just replied to on the Bugeye List<G>!!
>**************************************************************************
><<I always send the "long headers version to them. They will always reply
>confirming if it's bogus....    and it always is.>>
>
>Yep.  Just FYI, banks are the same.  I re-name (NOT actual address)
>spoof at paypal.com for my address book to "Abuse-paypal" so that I don't have 
>to
>"hunt" an address.
>
>I have 15 "abuse-******.***" in my "book"<G>!!
>
>One of the banks wrote me back about 8 or 9 months ago and advised that FBI
>HAD made an arrest and that my "forward" was "...extremely helpful and it 
>did
>contain information we and the authorities needed inorder to apprend the
>individual(s)."!!
>
>One less moron<VBG>!!
>
>Now about the "reward" they didn't offer.....


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