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23/07/2003 2:19 PM

Scam Letter

Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?


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cC

[email protected] (Charlie Self)

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

23/07/2003 7:55 PM

Joh3n asks:
>Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?

Nope. Don't have one.

Charlie Self

"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is
to function it must have dissent."
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gG

[email protected] (GTO69RA4)

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

23/07/2003 9:41 PM

>Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?

...And the PayPal password, and the AOL password, and the dude in Africa who
wants to give me $10,000,000.

GTO(John)

DB

Dave Balderstone

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

24/07/2003 1:57 AM

In article <[email protected]>,
John <[email protected]> wrote:

> Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?
>

Nope, but I got one telling me Swiftpay.com user icare24 just
sent $285.99 USD to me, and I have to do is enter my personal info at
the site they sent me to.

swiiftpay.com, no less. (note the double-i)

djb

--
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it." -- G.B. Shaw

Nn

Nova

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

24/07/2003 7:02 PM

Larry Jaques wrote:

> Yes, but Ebay themselves also told me to change it from
> my email address due to scams. I make sure that anything
> from Ebay or PayPal has the HTTPS prefix or just type it
> in myself. Damned scammers are getting better and better.
> To programmers like myself, they're sending code content
> email which, initially, looks interesting or valid.

The one's I almost fall for are the pop-up's that look like valid
Windows error messages.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

LG

"Lee Gordon"

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

24/07/2003 8:40 AM

<<Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?>>

The one in English or the one in German?

Lee

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

24/07/2003 4:28 AM

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:19:02 -0500 (CDT), [email protected] (John)
pixelated:

>Everybody get the one about changing your eBay password?

Yes, but Ebay themselves also told me to change it from
my email address due to scams. I make sure that anything
from Ebay or PayPal has the HTTPS prefix or just type it
in myself. Damned scammers are getting better and better.
To programmers like myself, they're sending code content
email which, initially, looks interesting or valid.


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li

"larry in cinci"

in reply to [email protected] (John) on 23/07/2003 2:19 PM

24/07/2003 6:02 PM

Speaking of scams I recieved another type today purportedly from microsoft
by e-mail. It was supposedly an update to fix bugs in micro* yadda yadda.
Called microsoft customer support to question this and was told microsoft
does not send bug fixes by e-mail If you get one don't open the attachment I
don't know what the thing will do but I really don't want to find out
either. Larry
"Nova" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Larry Jaques wrote:
>
> > Yes, but Ebay themselves also told me to change it from
> > my email address due to scams. I make sure that anything
> > from Ebay or PayPal has the HTTPS prefix or just type it
> > in myself. Damned scammers are getting better and better.
> > To programmers like myself, they're sending code content
> > email which, initially, looks interesting or valid.
>
> The one's I almost fall for are the pop-up's that look like valid
> Windows error messages.
>
> --
> Jack Novak
> Buffalo, NY - USA
>
>


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