I have had my ebay password appear in a junk e-mail subject header once.
Some junk mail ad from a server address in DENMARK(!). I wrote MS who said
(in effect) "not our fault". I wrote ebay who said (also in effect) "[dodge]
... we are constantly seeking ways to improve the [blah blah blah] .. we
suggest changing password FREQUENTLY (my emphasis)... "etc. So take note, in
addition to not using any other login other than "ebay.com" - ebay do not
use a secure encrypted sign-in webpage for login - so your password is
subject to being picked up.
Cheers,
Lee
----Original Message Follows----
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Olympus mailing list <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] WARNING -- e*ay scam message - see below...
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:32:51 -0700
I know that there are many among us who are active on the 'bay... and today
I got this email... I think this is a scam to harvest e*ay login and
*password* information...
I forwarded this message to e*ay support; I'm not sure exactly who to send
it to so I sent it to their fraud division. They are mostly setup to deal
with fraudulent auctions, but this is a bogus message IMO and it looks like
a scam to me.
Caution to all who might have received the same message. I don't like the
originating email address, and it just doesn't look like a 'real' e*ay
contact message to me.
I know we have some internet wizards on this list, can any of you backtrack
this and confirm the 'whois' and other info...? I'm posting the headers and
all, if that helps. I sent it to e*ay the same way.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> suspicious message below >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Received: from pop2-ext.prodigy.net by mailapps4 with SMTP; Wed, 23 Oct 2002
15:19:08 -0400
X-Originating-IP: [203.135.8.137]
Received: from 10.0.0.1 ([203.135.8.137])
by pop2-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with SMTP id
g9NJJ3NN207552
for <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:19:05 -0400
Message-Id: <200210231919.g9NJJ3NN207552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "aw-confirm@xxxxxxxx" <aw-confirm@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 02 00:19:29 West Asia Standard Time
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
Subject: Ebay Account Inactivity
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=WC_MAIL_PaRt_BoUnDaRy_05151998
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--WC_MAIL_PaRt_BoUnDaRy_05151998
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Subject: Ebay Account Inactivity. <br><br>Date: Tue, 24 October 2002
19:39:20
PDT <br><br>Due to inactivity of your account it is requested that you log
in to your<br>account using the following link to ensure proper working.
<br><br>This is a courtesy notice. No response is needed. <br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www16.brinkster.com/paladium/ebay.asp";
target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/signin</a>
<br>
Thank you for using eBay! <br>
<a
href="http://64.4.14.250:80/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=c67619032b584c9f2ca1
951d2bce8eda&lat=1023351062&hm___action=http%3a0.0000000.000000www0.000000e+00ebay0.000000e+00com"
target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com</a>
<br>
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