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Subject:Re: ebay fraud getting worse
From:Jonathan Farrugia
Date:Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:14:22 -0400

Robert

could you see the auction in the Selling portion of MyEbay?

jonathan

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Robert Keezer wrote:

> Your e-mail could not be more timely. My account
> was hijacked Sunday and today I spent all day
> getting back itno my account and reporting to
> ebay.
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> They were selling a non-existant 68 Camaro on my
> account. Ebay pulled the plug after I reported
> it.
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> But then they would'nt believe it was me unitil
> thye asked me a question I was able to anwer
> about a past auction of mine.
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> I now have the ebay toolbar with account guard.
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> Do not open any email in nyour email box that
> says from ebay unless there is one also in your
> ebay messages.
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> The spoof is a ad page that says :
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> eBay Seller Central This Holiday Season, Get Your
> Jingle On...All The Way To The Bank .
>
> DO NOT open this in your ebay messages , DELETE
> it . If you open it and click on a link, they'll
> have your password in a nanosecond.
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> What an ordeal. Account guard has color-coding to
> help determine if it's genuine ebay or not.
> Get IT.
>
> Robert
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> --- Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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>> Hi friends,
>>
>> this morning i asked for a carfax check - about
>> this car:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/qq9wz
>>
>> I emailed the guy to the email adress he gives
>> in the auction if you want to
>> buy it for $4500, which of course I would do.
>> To be sure, I also sent the
>> email via ebay messaging to the account owner.
>> Sure enough, the account
>> owner just emailed me saying that he did not
>> set up the auction and someone
>> must have hacked into his ebay account!
>>
>> well, thought something must be wrong with a
>> 4500$ eurovan westy.....
>> flo
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