OT: Careful with your eBay'ing!

Re: OT: Careful with your eBay'ing!

Stuart Johnson

>Mike, did you get any answer from EBAY? I received two or three messages like that yesterday. I just deleted them thinking it was some sort of junk / spam.

Re: OT: Careful with your eBay'ing!

Mike Schwing from Md.

>Nope, not yet. You think I've been had? I'd prefer that to being taken advantage of!

Might have had the same e-mail

steve antonucci

>Did it have somthing to do with $3 for extra shipping?

I got one this morning that looked like an 'Ask the seller a question' reply, only I hadn't bid or even looked at the item.

Not sure if they hijacked anything, or it's just meant to drive traffic to the auction.

Steve

Re: Might have had the same e-mail

Stuart Johnson

>I don't think it is a case of trying to up the traffic. I didn't click on the links in the message but the subject line had one item number and in the message was another. I tried both numbers plus the user id for the seller listed. All came up as invalid.

I've sent an email to my ISP abuse department and another to EBAY.

Very interesting

steve antonucci

>So if they didn't try to drive you to an auction (and neither of us clicked the links), what possible motive would be behind the mail?

I've had several IM's in the past few days pointing my to a link. When clicked, it tries to install software(Keystoke loggers to catch passwords, credit card numbers), but I catch it and stop it before it can proceed.

The internet is full of cons trying to beat your average guy out of anything they can. As users become more sophisticated, so do the cons.

Always think before you click.

Steve

Re: Very interesting

Ric Erkes

>One possible motive is just to validate your email address as an active one. Once you click on something they know it's a good one.

If so, you might start getting more spam.

Re: OT: Careful with your eBay'ing!

Matt Berry in MI

>Are you running a firewall with your computer. If not someone may have hacked your computer, and placed a Trojan on your computer to look at everything you are doing. There are also numerous other types of Spyware that can achieve the same results, like keyloggers ect. A lot of Antivirus programs don't catch trojans.