Bill Brewer wrote:
>...What Ebay and PayPal should do
>is ask EVERYONE to respond, but give bogus information. The scammers would be
>left with a lifetime of bogus data to sort through and have to give up on this
>scam. Why isn't this happening?
>
On a slow day I tried that posing as something like eBay user 'DropDead'
with password 'BiteMe' etc. Problem was when it wanted my credit card
number -- there seemed to be some intelligence in that number (check
digit? parity check?) that the bogus number I gave (using a valid first
4 digits which identify the type of card) wasn't acceptable.
Geo H
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