

| 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. > > They were selling a non-existant 68 Camaro on my > account. Ebay pulled the plug after I reported > it. > > 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. > > I now have the ebay toolbar with account guard. > > Do not open any email in nyour email box that > says from ebay unless there is one also in your > ebay messages. > > The spoof is a ad page that says : > > 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. > > What an ordeal. Account guard has color-coding to > help determine if it's genuine ebay or not. > Get IT. > > Robert > > 1982 Westfalia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > >
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