Don,
Thanks for the tip. How insidious the perpetrators of the game are!
Gary
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Malling" <dmallin@attglobal.net>
To: "6-Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: eBay Credit Card scam -- no LBC content
> I keep getting messages saying that eBay has had trouble verifying my
> credit card, and that I must reconfirm my credit card info.
>
> The first ones started about a month ago. They had all the look and feel
> of eBay, so I clicked on the link that was posted in the email, and when
> I got to the site, I noticed that the url was
> www.cancelations.com/eBay/index.html or something like that. The "eBay"
> was not in the site name. I became suspicious and canceled out of it.
>
> The more recent ones have much more realistic (and complicated urls),
> and they seem to know that I was at their site, and tell me how urgent
> it is that I reconfirm my credit card info.
>
> I took the link again, and again was at a site that looked very much
> like eBay -- all the eBay links worked and took me to various eBay
> pages. It asked me to login to eBay, so I did, but with a bogus
> password. Not to my surprise, the bogus password worked just fine.
>
> These guys are getting good at this.
>
> Don Malling
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