Thursday, September 22, 2005

eBay confirms email I received was fake, watch out for email from eactahshx@orc.ru

It was a fake, phoney, bogus and bad. At first I thought someone had make a mistake when typing in an email address, and typed in mine.
It clearly wasn't me because I've never sold anything on eBay.
It was a complaint email. It appeared to be from someone claiming that I'd taken their money but not delivered what I'd promised.
It asked me to click on the message icon and explainwise I'd be reported to the police.
But then I looked a bit closer and realised that the 'from' in the email address didn't look right.
It said "From: Ebay and gave the email address of the sender as .
Now call me old-fashioned by an email address from a russian domain looks a little bit suspicious. So I forwarded the email to abuse@eBay.co.uk.
I've now got a reply confirming that it was't sent from eBay. In other words, it was a phishing attack, trying to trick me into giving up my eBay userID and password.
So beware of whoever is . They're scam artists, conmen and frauds. Don't be bluffed and click on the message icon in his email.

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