Damn - almost got taken in....

I know a lot of you use Ebay, so I feel this is a
valid warning.

This should be basic knowlege for some of you, but
others might not know.

1st Mistake - do NOT use your email address as a
username on Ebay.

What happened - someone Emailed me saying that an
auction I had been outbid on fell through, and they
would sell me the item for my bid price.

I said "no thanks..."  They dropped the price to a
price that I thought was fair (real cheep), and I
almost jumped on it.

Then I noticed that the address field had an extra
space in it... kinda weird, so I changed my view
preferences to Full Headers.  If you don't know how to
read headers, I highly recommend searching the
internet for email abuse information.  It is very
helpful.

You can mask the IP Address, but it will come out as
an invalid IP, or as in my case he wasn't smart enough
to mask his IP and came across as a dial-up user with
a service in Romania with the email bounced through 3
hotmail-type accounts.

Now I await his next email so I can send his header
information to his ISP and the 3 interim accounts he
used, and hopefully get him thrown off of all of them.

Just a word of warning.  Maybe it'll save someone a
few bucks and the Pissed-offedness of getting screwed
via the internet.

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Mark
Music is the soundtrack to the Low Budget B-movie that is my life.

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v
http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/

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