Re: Ebay OT and ot

David Martel wrote:

Lumpy,

I think you are wrong. If ebay scams were sent at random then I would have received these before I used ebay but this did not happen. As soon as I made a purchase on ebay I was flooded with scam mail. I suspect that ebay is being hacked from the inside. I won't use ebay again until they eliminate this problem. I'm very nervous about their security.

Dave M.




I suppose that it is possible that the social engineering (harvesting of e-mail addys) is going on from within E-bay. Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time that someone had sold e-mail lists for profit.

However, the scam e-mails do not come from e-bay. We use reverse dns on all incoming e-mails here and none of the phishing attempts resolve to anything owned by e-bay. Nor do the paypal ones, or the ones that claim to be monthly updates from Microshaft.

I, btw, did get the e-bay scam before ever having used e-bay. I also gets them from banks I have never done business with.

It is all part of having an online life. There are ways to avoid getting such trash, but one has to do some serious comparitive weighing of the time effort involved in doing that vs ignoring/deleted junk e-mail.

And in case you didn't already know. NEVER NEVER NEVER click on one of the "remove me" from this list links. All that does is tell a bulk random mailer that there is indeed an account at that address and get you added to all kinds of new lists.

This is a snippet of one of those phishing attempts after it has been ran through our a-v software on our mail server.


<snip>
>To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal
>usedto make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the
>Resolution Center ---------->>>>> MailScanner has detected a possible >fraud attempt from "www.shl-components.com.hk" claiming to be >https://www.paypal.com/ .<<<<<------ If, after reviewing your account >information, you seek further clarification regarding your account >access, please contact
<snip>

Ryan
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