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**Aggression** · March 12th, 09:34 PM

I just got two emails in my inbox, one was from eBay and the other from PayPal.

The eBay was pretending to be a guy yelling at me for not shipping the item or something, and he was going to call the police. They expect you to reply using the "Reply Now" button, which takes you to a fake eBay login page. Two things about this threw me off. The most obvious one is that when people on eBay send me a message, I get an alert in a different email, but the more important thing is to check the url.

Like I said, clicking Reply Now takes you to a fake sign-in page which looks identical to the normal eBay page, and has you log in. I assume from there it just takes your name/password.

This one is the PayPal email I got asking me to confirm my account for a security upgrade. This one is a lot more obvious. The biggest thing that will probably throw people off is just that it looks identical to the sites its imitating.

So yeah...watch for these. I also got another one from eBay saying my account was going to be suspended unless I emailed them back, and again, it took me to a false log in page.

It's a good idea, but I guess I'm just too amazing.

Anyways, yeah...just look out for these.

**Aggression** · March 12th, 09:36 PM

(Both URL's showing on the bottom are from me holding the mouse over the links asking me to confirm my account.)

**sumsimpleracer** · March 12th, 09:38 PM

whoa...thanks for the heads up man

**Gangsta_Redneck** · March 12th, 09:38 PM

good catch if i get any e-mails like that i'll just delete

**mLuH** · March 12th, 09:47 PM

thats weird.

***NYY*** · March 12th, 10:00 PM

yeah my dad always gets those

**mspainter** · March 12th, 10:14 PM

also.. on another forum i got to i know a guy that clicked the one for ebay, but just before he logged in... he read that the address bar said something was different. it was an ip address. so, watch out!

**Ja289** · March 12th, 10:17 PM

yeah.. my dad actually recently foiled some big seller on ebay who was selling printers illegally. the guy bought Dell printers, took out the inside parts, sold them as *brand new* and then seperately sold the parts. the guy sucessfully sold 1400 units, not a single person reported it because it seemed legitamite. my dad called paypal to demand his money back, and they like thanked him because they're not allowed to cancel accounts without a complaint of some sort.

**Zues** · March 12th, 11:18 PM

Very good find.. im not thorough enough to catch either of those...

Seeing that amount of spam i bet your liking the 2000+ megabytes that gmail gives you for emails

**Aggression** · March 13th, 12:31 AM

haha yeah, I get a couple hundred a day. I used to always delete them but I just gave up, so I'm just gonna let it pile up.

***NYY*** · March 13th, 12:35 AM

gmail does a good job filtering spam imo

**iluvwpg** · March 13th, 12:41 AM

i think hotmail is filtering stuff it shouldn't, the only e-mail i've gotten in a long time that wasn't on my contacts list was my grandma.

i'm gonna turn it off and just filter out the spam myself, it's so damn obvious what is fake, well, wat i get sent is anyway.

of course, this is after i find out how to change the spam filter

***MedicDVG*** · March 13th, 03:17 AM

These e-mail scams are called Phishing (as in fishing) where they develop a scam website that looks like the real thing. Often they ask you to verify your account name with your credit card or account numbers... not cool. They are very illegal but there are a lot of people that fall for them.

Good find, and good information.

***Wes Himself*** · March 13th, 07:33 AM

i have never got any spam on my gmail account...but i also only use it for livejournal...and my teams ******* i think... i dont really use it much... My ISP gave me a web address and i have all my mail coming to my thunderbird...

tippmanpwner · March 13th, 11:55 AM

i usually get like 5 of those a day. before clicking the links go to ebay and sign in, if its fake it will ask you to sign in again. Foward those emails to spoof@ebay.com.

**Spudchucker** · March 13th, 12:13 PM

nice heads up with the email thing

a family friend of ours (genius computer programmer guy.. big time) bought some windows cd's on ebay, and because of his close work with software, noticed that the cd software wasnt exactly right, and reported it to the FBI. the guy's house in california was raided, and 10,000 illegal cds were found sitting in his workplace. he's got several years of jail to go through now, and our friend who busted him had to go to trial in california to testify

pretty sweet

**Ja289** · March 13th, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Spudchucker

nice heads up with the email thing

a family friend of ours (genius computer programmer guy.. big time) bought some windows cd's on ebay, and because of his close work with software, noticed that the cd software wasnt exactly right, and reported it to the FBI. the guy's house in california was raided, and 10,000 illegal cds were found sitting in his workplace. he's got several years of jail to go through now, and our friend who busted him had to go to trial in california to testify

pretty sweet

that is so cool

**mavsfan31** · March 13th, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MedicDVG

These e-mail scams are called Phishing (as in fishing) where they develop a scam website that looks like the real thing. Often they ask you to verify your account name with your credit card or account numbers... not cool. They are very illegal but there are a lot of people that fall for them.

Good find, and good information.

Yep, your right. There was a big article about this in Reader's Digest about this.

Good thread.

**Aggression** · March 14th, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by NYY

gmail does a good job filtering spam imo

I agree. I get a ton of spam, but it all goes into that folder and I don't have to look at it.