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ebay scam

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dannyboy15 said:
If you guys recieve any emails from what looks like to be ebay asking you for personal information DO NOT FILL IT OUT!!!. My father was tricked into doing so yesterday, so now he has to get a new bank account and social sercuerity number and all that stuff, be aware.

-danny
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Yup. I get e-mail messages like that all the time that purport to be from eBay or PayPal. Yeah, sure, like PayPal can't keep track of my password and other info! I forward them on to [email protected] or [email protected].
 
#3
One of my favorite webpages is www.cockeyed.com

Rob Cockerham chronicles his various adventures in life, but in particular he pays good attention to scams, schemes and trickery. He has a lot of good information on his site about how to identify and avoid scams, and best of all he has a great sense of humor.
 
#4
When I first started getting these I'd start filling in the blanks just for fun with things like "You're an idiot" "nice try dumba$$" and whatnot. I hope just once I got under someone's skin. Probably not though.

brad cook
 
#6
MJ5150 said:
I always wondered if anyone was dumb enough to fall for those stupid e-mails. I guess this is why they keep on doing it.

-Mike
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it's not so much a question of smart and dumb more like experienced and inexperienced. People that have little internet and computer experience are easily tricked by these things. that's why they still exist.
 
#8
Yeah my wife was telling me that one of our friends fell for this and my first thought was "What an idiot!" Then I heard the whole story and it was a little easier to buy, although I still wouldn't have done it. What happened was she went to either Ebay or PayPal (can't remember which) and changed their address and personal info because she and her husband just moved. The very next day she had the email that said something about verifying her change of information at Ebay. IT just happened to be perfect timing for the scammer and she fell for it since she had indeed just changed her info at Ebay. Still a bit naive but she's not really savvy anyway.

brad cook
 

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