You may also want to delete all of your "cookies". That is how they know
you were at the site. One sure way to stop any future email is to fill out
the form and be extremely "creative" when you do it, in other words nothing
that is real. My wife was getting this three and four times a week until I
filled out the information and returned it to the sender, I was very
creative. No more phony email.
Charlie Shaw
At 11:34 PM 3/2/2003 -0500, Don Malling wrote:
>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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