kallend 2,151 #1 February 23, 2005 I've had quite a few of these in the past, but this morning I received the most cleverly designed one yet. It looked 100% genuine except for the giveaway that it wanted personal information and had a virus along for the ride. If you get something apparently from Ebay asking for information, just forward it to spoof@ebay.com... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buried 0 #2 February 23, 2005 been also seeing a large amount of pay pal ones. coincidentally they are own by ebay Where is my fizzy-lifting drink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisL 2 #3 February 23, 2005 One way to check the validity of these types of e-mails is to examine the SMTP header to see if the originating server is actually operated by the company that is allegedly sending the message. I've received several messages lately that appeared to be genuine (except where they ask me to supply information) but when I looked at the headers they came from servers in european countries.__ My mighty steed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumperconway 0 #4 February 23, 2005 May I add; Washington Mutual E-Bay Pay Pal Citi-Bank and several other banks I've never heard of that look quite real! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bmcd308 0 #5 February 23, 2005 e-bay and paypal always address you by name, since they know it, in the body of the e-mail. The spoofs are addressed to "User" or to your e-mail username. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buried 0 #6 February 23, 2005 Quote and several other banks I've never heard of that look quite real! they are real!! ... at least I hope so, I gave them all my person info Where is my fizzy-lifting drink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dorbie 0 #7 February 24, 2005 This is a classic phishing attempt. I've seen legit ones from Citibank and BofA. There was a bug in IE a while back that allowed them to spoof the IE address bar contents so that even the clickthrough URL looked legit. Now they have to settle for obfuscating the address after an IE patch. Any email asking you to return to a site to reenter "authentication" information of any kind is bogus. Even the ones masquerading as security warnings. They are classic phishing attacks and legit smart companies don't do this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
