A couple days ago my sister got an email which looked like it was from ebay, and it said that they recently tried to authorize payment from her credit card but it was declined. They had a link where she was supposed to re-submit her credit card information.
Fortunately she didn't click the link and give her credit card info. The email is a scam and the person or persons sending it out are harvesting peoples credit card numbers, names, and info.
Tonight I received the same email. It looks very legitimate unless you know how to read complete email headers and then you can see where it really originated from.
DON'T FALL FOR IT!
I have forwarded it to ebay abuse and also to the abuse dept. at the originating IP server where the email is from.
Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :
I've gotten similar emails from 'ebay' telling me there has been some sort of fraudulent goings on with my ebay acct....it looked suspicious and i deleted it.
Adrienne
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
in our local paper (the observer) www.charlotte.com there is a story about how UNC-Charlotte's computer system was hacked for this fake e-bay mailing. it apparently is from an outside source that was able to get in, send out information requests, and with any information possibly used for ID theft. the story mentions it was shut down shortly after the hack was discovered.
Posted by EmpY (Member # 138) on :
The fake email I got was sent from a server in Englewood Colorado. Through icgcomm.com
Posted by Bruce Williams (Member # 691) on :
Emphasizing what EmpY said, it's the HEADERS that matter when you're tracerouting e-mail. So, you don't actually "forward" the spam. You copy the header, paste that into a New Message, and send to the ISP, and in this case to E-bay (and if the spam requests money thru US Mail, to fraud@uspis.gov).
Different e-mail clients display headers via different commands. In Outlook Express, select the e-mail and hit Control F3.
