Re: [CR]new-to-me ebay scam

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:40:40 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]new-to-me ebay scam
References: <20060106132517.48303.qmail@web81101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060106132517.48303.qmail@web81101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> I've received the same scam. Knew it was a scam, as I never sell
> anything on eBay, only buy. Anyone know how this scam works? Can
> the scammer obtain some valuable information simply from an email
> response? I wasn't sure, so did not reply, although I was tempted to
> reply, #@$* you, you scumbag scammer!

No; the way they harvest your information is when you click the yellow button to respond, thinking it will take you to the eBay Messages site, but what it actually does is send you to a phony site that looks like eBay's so when you enter your username/password they can capture it.

These scams are easier to spot if your email program shows the URL behind the link. Mozilla's Thunderbird does this -- when you hover your mouse over the "http://ebay.com/<blah>

Forewarned is forearmed...

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA