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02-28-2004, 12:24 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Nashville
Vehicle: $800 1995 Plymouth Neon
Posts: 2,649
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is there a new EBAY scam going around?
I've gotten 2 emails that appear to come from awconfirm@ebay.com, one with a title of "ebay Notification" and the other "eBay important account information"
I am suspicious because each email asks me to enter enough information to steal my ebay account. They claim that my information could not be verified "during our regular update and verification of accounts", then they ask me for my name, ebay ID & password, address, phone number, email address, etc.
If they couldnt verify my information for my account, then wouldnt they already have my ebayID and email address? All of this is put into a form inside the email, it's not a link to an Ebay site.
anybody heard of this being a scam? I'm not gonna do anything with it because if it is real, then they'll just delete my account (according to the email) and I dont use it that much.
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Debt as of 1/1/05: $34,354.48
Debt as of July 4, 2007: $0.00 explanation
Total spent on wedding so far: $3885.79
Thanks to everyone for your support.
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02-28-2004, 12:31 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Nashville
Vehicle: $800 1995 Plymouth Neon
Posts: 2,649
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wow, these guys are good.
I looked at the headers, and they say that they come from ebay.com, but if you lookup the IP addresses, the machines are in amsterdam and madrid.
anybody know where I can report a scam to ebay?
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Debt as of 1/1/05: $34,354.48
Debt as of July 4, 2007: $0.00 explanation
Total spent on wedding so far: $3885.79
Thanks to everyone for your support.
I'M DEBT FREE!!
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02-28-2004, 12:45 AM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Long Beach
Vehicle: 1998 Chevy Blazer
Posts: 213
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I've received dozens of these e-mails. Just foreward them to spoof@ebay.com . You may also get some from PayPal scammers.
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02-28-2004, 01:06 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Washington D.C.
Vehicle: 2004 Jetta GLS TDI (biodiesel)
Posts: 1,580
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02-29-2004, 03:38 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ohio
Vehicle: Camaro z28
Posts: 138
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the paypal site does say the one way to know its a pay pal scam is that in the address line where it says lke Dear or something .... it will always be Dear FirstName LastName
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1999 Camaro z28
-- Computer installed :) Phase 1
-- z28 302hp dynoed :( WAHH!!!!
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02-29-2004, 04:53 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Lancaster, PA
Vehicle: 99 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport (Black)
Posts: 204
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When is there not an eBay/PayPal scam going around?
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02-29-2004, 05:06 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 189
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i get the same thing eccept its paypal, asks you to put in all your personal information and it links to a website that looks like paypal.com, but its different.
some link to that fake site that steals your login and the other wants you to download some attachment. its quite interesting
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02-29-2004, 06:30 PM
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Live and Kickin' 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Houston
Vehicle: 2004 Mazda RX-8
Posts: 1,377
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They always use the address spoofing trick
like www.mp3car.com@www.arbytech.com
But they'll convert the real address to ascii and use like %25%43%63 so you can't see it. I get these stupid things all of the time.
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02-29-2004, 10:41 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,616
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i've never gotten one of those, and i've had both a paypal account and ebay account for over a year
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02-29-2004, 11:28 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: AB, CANADA
Vehicle: 2003 Nissan Pathfinder LE
Posts: 137
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yea, me too, over a year though. maybe its a good thing we arent on those lists. haha.
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03-04-2004, 08:40 AM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ohio
Vehicle: Camaro z28
Posts: 138
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what ****es me off ... is i FINALLLLLY got tired of ALLLLL the spam ... so i was like . damn ... joes a genius .... he shall do this .. i'll make a new domain name ... and then use various identies to login with ... a month ago .... NOW .... to my avail!!! i am already gettign spammed off the one. ( i have a joseph@ and an online@ ...) ...
.... ah but now ... my NEWEST PLAN!!! its sheer genius .... i am going to get rid of the online at .. and just do @online.companyname.com ... then everything before that will be based off the siet in question .. sOOOOO then i may be able to figure out which loser site i go to got my name .... 
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1999 Camaro z28
-- Computer installed :) Phase 1
-- z28 302hp dynoed :( WAHH!!!!
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03-05-2004, 01:33 PM
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Live and Kickin' 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Houston
Vehicle: 2004 Mazda RX-8
Posts: 1,377
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I do the same thing, jnusaira. Any email @arbytech.com gets forwarded to my main account. Whenever I sign up for something, I use companyname @ arbytech.com so I know who's sending me spam.
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03-05-2004, 02:42 PM
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MySQL Error
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Beach City, Socal
Vehicle: 89 Supra Turbo, 04 Toyota Matrix XR
Posts: 4,032
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One more interesting trick is that they make it like sending from ebay(the trick is NOT from ebay). I got couple email which is a reply to "Question to seller". The body of the message is almost identical to typical ebay question to seller email respond.
At the end of the message there is regular link to "To view the item" the url is encoded to number and % sign which ip address. After decode the url and nslookup, it go to some dial-up/dsl/cable number from charter.com like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.something.charter.com. The page will be display is the ebay item number.html
When I first get the email, and found the link is weird so I go direct to ebay and login to see the the account activity for the pass 30 day (I thought that the accout could be hijack). Nothing happen. That is good.
A word of advice, do not click on anylink you get from email or any form, just go directly to the website and find out from there.
Last edited by MatrixPC; 03-05-2004 at 02:44 PM.
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