[Mccoypottery-talk] Ebay Spoof

[McCoyPottery.com List Mom]

On Feb 17, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Cunningham, Beth wrote:

> Yesterday, a work colleague got one of the fake Ebay emails asking for
> information, saying that her account was being suspended, the usual
> malarkey.   She had never received one before so she clicked on the
> link, noticed that it wanted fairly personal information, got 
> suspicious
> and got out of the email.  Well, today someone is London, England has
> listed software for sale on Ebay under my friend's user name.  She
> contacted Ebay and has been told that just clicking on these emails may
> be enough for someone to get her user name and password.

No, just clicking on them does not grab anything other than all the 
information anyone can grab publicly about your machine/connection, 
etc.. Things like your IP, user-agent(browser), etc..

If this happened, then she entered here information into the 
fields/form and clicked submit.  That is the only way they can get your 
user info.
>
>
>
> Everyone out there, please be careful.  Do not open these fraudulent
> Ebay messages!!!  Her experience should be a lesson to all of us.  By
> the way, this woman is very computer savvy and even she was fooled!
>
Opening the message is not going to automatically send some fraudster 
your username, or cc or CVV number.. Unless someone has embedded all 
that information in their email program and told it to give the 
information out.

Just do not fill out the form and give them the info.  That is the only 
way the get it :-)



Regards,
The List Mom
McCoy Pottery Online
www.mccoypottery.com
listmom@mccoypottery.com
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