And yet another Ebay scam...
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----- Original Message -----
From: TechSupport@ebay.com
To: Members
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:02 AM
Subject: Urgent Update
Dear eBay Member,
We at eBay are trully sorry to inform you that we are having problems with
the billing information of your account. We would appreciate
it if you would visit our website eBay Billing Center and fill out
the proper information that we are needing to keep you as an eBay member.
If you think you have received this email as an error, please visit
our website and fill out the necessary information. That way we can
make sure that everything is up to date! Again here is the
link to our website.
>>CLICK HERE<< to visit eBay Billing Center
*******
Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive AResponse
*******
Thank you
Accounts Management
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
From: TechSupport@ebay.com
To: Members
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:02 AM
Subject: Urgent Update
Dear eBay Member,
We at eBay are trully sorry to inform you that we are having problems with
the billing information of your account. We would appreciate
it if you would visit our website eBay Billing Center and fill out
the proper information that we are needing to keep you as an eBay member.
If you think you have received this email as an error, please visit
our website and fill out the necessary information. That way we can
make sure that everything is up to date! Again here is the
link to our website.
>>CLICK HERE<< to visit eBay Billing Center
*******
Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive AResponse
*******
Thank you
Accounts Management
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
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Comments
You can usually, right click on the message, select view source.
Then in the HTML source code for the message, you can scroll down to the line "Click Here" and you'll see
a special URL in front of the regular URL, it typically has a TCPIP address that is not the comany in question.
They call this a "phishing" scam. The browser actually goes to the "hidden" URL and not the visible URL.
Current Microsoft browser updates block this feature, but some people may have turned it on in their browsers.
If I remember right you have to go in and manually add an entry into your registry, so I don't think the regular users
will be turning this feature back on.