The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60923 Message #999507
Posted By: Bill D
09-Aug-03 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Pay Pal - A Caution
Subject: RE: Tech: Pay Pal - A Caution
I, too, have received emails from PayPay and Ebay asking me to 'comfirm' my account...like this
"Dear Sir or Madam,
eBay Account Management regrets to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due to credit card verification problems. Your credit card failed to authorize and as a result, your account has been flagged. All further transactions with your account will be denied until this flag is removed.
Please take a moment to confirm your account by going to the following address: eBay.com
Trully your, eBay account management team."
I LOVE that 'trully your'
sounds like the Nigerians are moving into new realms! And this was part of the headers.."Return-Path:
the funny thing is, I don't HAVE a PayPay account...and I have only registered at Ebay, and not ever used it!
This is a well layed out scheme...except the idiots are not clever enough to use a spell checker!
and in the headers, it says the message was sent by "X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal " ...which is a commercial email program which ebay would NEVER use!
read these things well, folks, anytime you are asked for personal data!