Thread: warning

Another Warning!
A few years ago i got my identity stolen on e-bay. I was selling a few items, and sometimes you get questions asked about an item your selling.
When a buyers ask a question you get an e-mail, and i responded from the link via the e-mail and when you do this you need to put in your username and password and thats how they stole my id it was a phony e-mail but let me tell you it looked very real.
I contacted e-bay right away, and they fixed the problem immediatelly, very professionally as well. The person who did this was from Holland and allready made a few purchase, but nothing came of it, e-bay cancelled everything very fast.
That said if you get a question for an item your selling dont respond from the e-mail you received, go to the website an always use "My Ebay" to respond to question. This was a very unpleasant experienced.

Yes, Martin, I have recieved the same thing. I always forward them to ebay. I have also had fake ones purporting to be from Paypal telling me my account has been temporarily shut down as someone tried to compromise it. Asked to click on the link. Did not open and sent it to paypal. They responded and said it was fishing. Ebay and paypal have your info and passwords. Never assume they need to ask!

Thanks for the heads up. I usually have one or two packages outstanding at a given time.

Very good advise! I get a few of them every week. Also, if a subject line from a friend looks different than usual from that friend, delete the email.
Yahoo has been hacked twice in the last three months and has not fixed the bug in their system yet.
~Richard

The best practice is never open those up. Go directly to the fedex or other web site. if it's true you will get the info there.

I've gotten those type of things all the time. I know it's fake because the tracking number isn't format correct or I'm not expecting anything. Of course the Postal Service does deliver UPS and some Fedex parcels. They have these new service levels to save money for businesses.

I enjoy playing around with those. I once gave my name as "Frank N Beans" with the address and phone number to the FBI HQ. Never heard back. A gent I worked with did the same except they requested he send money to them. My co-worker insisted he sent it and kindly requested they send him $20 so he can verify where to send the money. He made $20 from the bad guys but never claimed it.

In case anyone is curious when I do play around with them I like to spoof my IP or use a internet cafe and now I use Linux Back Track 5 to lessen the chances of an infection.

Do you guys know how many times I've won the Irish sweepstakes this past year? 3 times and I havent even entered. Does that even exist anymore?

It's not such a new thing, phishing emails seem to have replaced penis enlargment ads at the top of the annoying scam list.

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

Hey guys,
This is a warning that is relevant to us as we do a lot of sending and receiving through the mail and such. This is the new scam
While waiting for something from Switzerland,I got a strange message from Fed-Ex,saying that they tried to deliver a package,and couldn't so it was waiting for me at the post office,and to click on the link for the package number,this sounded strange to me ,so I asked the mailman and called Fed-Ex,the mailman never heard of such a thing,and Fed-Ex said it was a new scam and NOT to click on the link. I thought I would just pass this on to the rest of you just in case you get one of these, I've gotten three so far,so be aware.

I get that email maybe once per week and I know it's a scam because the grammar is totally off!

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

Do you guys know how many times I've won the Irish sweepstakes this past year? 3 times and I havent even entered. Does that even exist anymore?

do you know that I am an African Prince about 12 times over already? I'm not even African American but I get 1 of those maybe once a month!