New Phishing Twist

b0b · From: Cloverdale, CA, USA

This email looked like an Ebay member-to-member message. The mark will "login to Ebay" to send a reply to this nice old lady.

quote:
Hello,

I recently placed a bid on item #5590717206 being a wheelchair for me that i really need do to my age(78 years old) and it seems that i can not find the auction anymore...May i please know if you are the seller of the item above?

Regards,
Gretta

Of course, the link to send a reply is a phishing site that will capture your Ebay password...

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Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

I read somewhere that the more ways we have to dance, the more opportunities we have to step on our own feet...
Be suspicious, very suspicious. You don't have to be paranoid but people really are out to get ya...

[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 21 October 2005 at 01:34 PM.]

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

b0b,
Have you heard anything about the cashiers check scam on ebay?

Bill

Bobby D. Hunter · From: USA

As I have said before, in case anybody missed it, all phishing or suspicious messages that claim to be from eBay or Paypal should be forwarded to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com. Members of SpamCop.net can submit phishing emails via their SpamCop accounts and the proper authorities will be notified for you.

Bill Ford - The fraudulant cashiers check scam is not limited to ebay. Our members had to endure Nigerian scammers for over a year and a half, all of whom tried to pull overpayment/refund to Nigeria kited check scams. Thanks to input from recipients of such scams these criminals are being blocked from accessing the SGF.

If anybody on the Forum does receive a new scam along these lines, related to goods for sale at the SGF, I would appreciate your forwarding them to me as attachments, or copy and paste the email source headers into an email to me. I don't need the message text, just the headers. On the other hand, if I receive the entire message intact I can submit it to SpamCop, for reporting to the upstream relays and the scammer's ISP.

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Security for SGF
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