[meteorite-list] eBay Scam?

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 4 22:17:28 2005
Message-ID: <f7o4a1199mu4n3bb5bmdjd3iv151325usq_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:09:29 -0700, Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_cox.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
> I have received a post, supposedly from ebay, saying I have been
>temporarily suspended and I should go to the link they provide to
>verify my account.
> Of course they want my information, which I will not give - they
>sent a warning about a week ago saying if I didn't go and "verify"
>my information they would suspend me.
> Anyone else get one of these? I would copy/paste it below, but
>my cursor freezes when I click on it and I can't even open another
>email.

As someone else mentioned recently in that other fishing thread, NO legit web site, not Paypal, not
Ebay, not Amazon, NOBODY, will EVER send you an e-mail with a link that you have to click to enter
account information. If you get an e-mail like that, it is a scam one hundred percent of the time.
Valid businesses will tell you to go to the site and log on and enter the information.

I would also suggest to you and everyone to TURN OFF all html and xml and Active-X and every single
other feature in e-mails than plain text and only plain text. There are just too many ways people
can get into your system with e-mails that contain html or other components, even if you do not
click on the items. Anything more than plain ASCII text in e-mails is pointless and dangerous.
Received on Sat 04 Jun 2005 10:23:52 PM PDT