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Does eBay do anything with spoof e-mails?

shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,625 ✭✭✭✭
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Do they report and/or ban that e-mail address? Or are we just sending spoofs to spoof@ebay.com for them to verify that the e-mails are spoofs? If it's the latter, I'll stop wasting my time. I've always hoped that they were at least doing SOMETHING to the frauds who send these e-mails. Anyone know for sure?
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."

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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    There is NO public evidence that EBAY does anything other than
    collect fees from honest sellers AND from CRIMINALS around the world.

    It is NOT in EBAY's interest to stop fraud. Thus, they don't.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What can they do? Most of these phishing scams originate from organized crime in Russia, China, Nigeria and rural areas in the Philippines...not exactly condusive to cooperating with United States law enforcement.

    It's quite simple really - NEVER open up an e-mail link and you won't have to worry about it. If the e-mail looks legit...then just go to the ebay website direct and check it out.

    BTW - when you open up the scammer's e-mail, even without clicking the links, it triggers the HTML download and the sender then knows you opened the e-mail, then you'll usually receive more scam e-mails because they know something like Spam Assassin isn't killing the e-mail, that at least they've got a live one on this particular e-mail address...so don't even open the obvious scams.



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  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭
    boy ,could the above statement be any more on the mark!listen to it if you dont already!

    i made the mistake of opening one once,and i got at least 10-15 a week for a month!

    so obviously ebay doesnt do much because i emailed them every time and only got

    the formal thank you for info.
    J.R.
    Needs'
    1972 Football-9's high#'s
    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8
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