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[andthebeatgoeson]

Woot, They still try these. I'm usually 2 to 3 years behind when I get the scams. Like 6 months ago, I got my first Nigerian Banker scam. Now this:

To: pleasesendmespam@hotmail.com
From: C4WGVZ@aol.com ()
X-Originating-IP: [69.214.207.82]
Subject: Billing GCYZLO

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
(C4WGVZ@aol.com) on Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 03:01:51
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

: Dear eBay Member,
We at eBay are sorry to inform you that we are having problems with the
billing information of your account. We would appreciate it if you would
visit our website
http:\\r.aol.com\cgi\redir-complex?url=http://get-me.to/updateinfo2
and fill out the proper information that we are needing to keep you as an
eBay member.
If you think you have received this email as an error, please visit our
website
http:\\r.aol.com\cgi\redir-complex?url=http://get-me.to/updateinfo2
and fill out the neccesary information. That way we can make
sure that everything is up to date! Again here is the link to
our website. http:\\r.aol.com\cgi\redir-complex?url=http://get-me.to/updateinfo2
Joe Watson
eBay Billing Center
Rep ID. 32A
Thank you for your business.
The eBay Staff.

Do me a favor guys and click that link and put in any info. Like stupid Bart Simpson jokes (Alot Vagina). Maybe if we can get 5000 stupid replys, they may just go away. Or maybe not.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

No seriously, WTF?

http://get-me.to/updateinfo2

 

[automagnus]

report it to the police and I believe e-bay would be more then happy to know about this.

 

[6.8]

I got it weekly last summer for a while, I ignored it, and I never heard from them since.

 

[darlyn]

I got the same message a bunch of times, but from "Paypal."
Whenever I get those I usually try to forward it to the help e-mail provided by the service.. they have more resources to go after those people than the police anyway.

 

[Diablos]

Heh, anyone who is dumb enough to believe that deserves to get scammed...

 

[mrkgoo]

I once got an emaill, or was it a security warning about my bank claiiming they needed credit card and/or login details to confirm something or other. Peculiar, though was the 'fake' site - not only did it look authentic (esy to do), but it seemed to have an authentic web address (from the bank). Can you fake these?

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

I'm dissapointed. I thought for sure this was a snail mail scam, cause really, a thread for this?


=D

 

[Darias]

MrKGoo - apparently you can. There are certain browser insecurities, mostly associated with firefox atm where someone would register a domain with a website name that doesn't exactly conform to the 26 - letter alphabet. for example www.paÞpal.com (Y = ascii 0x0222) on some machines, the erroneous ascii code is actually displayed as the letter it is impersonating, because the computer is not properly set up to display the actual character.

I just glanced at the article when I saw it, but can look more into it later. Sorry for the roundabout reply, I B sick.

 

[jenov4]

Hahah, yeah people should really stop and think when they see the "PIN Number" field. And I've heard something like 10-20% of people actually fill out these forms as they do look legit.