Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for those unsure of such matters: I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2> being noticed. When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full details...yeah, alright...I don't think so. To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this. I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and similar ones. <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail adresses to mine. <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for those unsure of such matters: I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2> being noticed. When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full details...yeah, alright...I don't think so. To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this. I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and similar ones. <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail adresses to mine. <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
Pete
Got that email two days ago. Tried to report it to ebay. Got thoroughly pi**ed off at their reporting procedure so just deleted it.
"Stan Cox" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Peter B said:
Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for those unsure of such matters: I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2> being noticed. When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full details...yeah, alright...I don't think so. To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this. I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and similar ones. <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail adresses to mine. <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
Pete
Got that email two days ago. Tried to report it to ebay. Got thoroughly pi**ed off at their reporting procedure so just deleted it.
Stan Cox
No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to [email hidden]'
(you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with messages purporting to come from ebay )
-- Tumbleweed
email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com
Trusting everybody on this NG is savvy enough not to fall for this BUT for those unsure of such matters: I've just received a genuine looking e-mail <1> purporting to be from ebay telling me that my account has been suspended due to unusual activity <2> being noticed. When I progressed through the links I arrived at a page asking me to fill in full information of all my bank and credit card details, and I mean full details...yeah, alright...I don't think so. To anyone unsure, NEVER, EVER do this. I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and similar ones. <1> Until I noticed it was copied to several addressees with similar e-mail adresses to mine. <2> I have recently been through a rigmarole as I had forgotten my user details, so long is it since I bid, so wasn't too suspicious initially.
I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries. And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of. And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it. And the latest security patches from Microsoft. And executables containing great jokes or hot sex scenes. Oh, occasionally I get genuine e-mail.
The PayPal and eBay ones you can forward to <[email hidden]> or <[email hidden]>.
-- Dave...
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain
"Dave Kahn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... <snip>>
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I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries. And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of. And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.
Lucky [censored], you must be rich by now.
-- Tumbleweed
email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com
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"Dave Kahn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... <snip>>
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I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries. And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of. And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.
Lucky [censored], you must be rich by now.
Well, if I'd followed any of them up, I would be, natch.
I get loads of these. And PayPal forgeries. And Lloyds TSB forgeries. And forgeries of banks I don't use. And of banks I've barely heard of. And lottery wins. And letters from heads of foreign banks who want my help claiming the contents of the account of someone who's snuffed it.
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Lucky [censored], you must be rich by now.
Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world, who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen feet long.
I am reporting the con to ebay but I imagine they're well aware of it and similar ones.
Yes, please do report this as I get a few of these a week and can't be bothered. My first ever one originated from 'scancom' (the phone side of Scan computers) and I know this 'coz it was addressed to [email hidden] . I contacted 'scancom' regarding them giving my email address away and they didn't even reply.
"Tumbleweed" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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No big deal, just forward it with full headers to to [email hidden]'
(you'll then get back a patronising message about being careful with messages purporting to come from ebay )
Yeah, received the patronising one almost immediately and a little later another automatically generated one slightly less patronising. I s'pose if the pattern was to continue I'd eventually receive one accusing me of being a sad w*nker and telling me to [censored] and bother someone else :-)
Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined the following...
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Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world, who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen feet long.
Is that "real" spam though, or hate mail from the end-users?
Jon Senior jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk said:
Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined the following...
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Dead Ringers joke regarding Gates, the most spammed man in the world, who gets four million spam emails a year but now has a penis seventeen feet long.
Four million a year isn't that much: I'd be somewhere around that if I disabled my spam filtering.
The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP. They acknowledged him in a README file, which included his email address. Some of the spamming viruses found the address, generating several times that load per day when those viruses are active.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email hidden] (Nick Kew)
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The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP
Impossible. Microsoft would never incorporate viral licensing into its products.
Microsoft has however, entirely legally, incorporated BSD-type licenced open-source software into its products, rendering the question of whether "viral" is a reasonable description of copyleft irrelevent.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:57:30 +0000, [email hidden] (Nick Kew)
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The highest numbers I've heard of are from a developer whose open-source software was incorporated by Microsoft into Windows XP
Impossible. Microsoft would never incorporate viral licensing into its products.
Microsoft has however, entirely legally, incorporated BSD-type licenced open-source software into its products, rendering the question of whether "viral" is a reasonable description of copyleft irrelevent.
Which is part of why I've switched from BSD licensing to GPL licensing my products.
