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MattNW
419Eater is my life
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
Posts: 264
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:23 am |
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Recently I've been getting emails from Ebay with specific questions about items for sale. Thing is I never have sold anything on Ebay, have no Ebay account nor any connection with Ebay whatsoever. The emails are addressed to my personal home account but with no connection with Ebay I can only conclude that they are sending them to random email addys.
Latest one was a question from a buyer asking if I would take a car in trade for a Suzuki 400 quad. I checked the product and it didn't exist.
So what's the catch? The email doesn't include any log in links so it doesn't look like a phishing attempt. |
_________________ please feed me in with more info. - Dr. Soludo
Also we found out that some of the officials of the prostates may have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money.
LET ME TELL YOU,SINCE YOU DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE RESPECT,YOU MOUTH MAY PUT YOU INTO TROUBLE. |
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TheGreatOok
Catbingo
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 2355
Location: Lost in L-Space
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:25 am |
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Sounds like a check scam. They send you a check for over the price of the item and ask you to send the overdraft back. Check later bounces and bank holds you responsible. |
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MattNW
419Eater is my life
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
Posts: 264
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:41 am |
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That would work only if I were selling the item or if the item even existed. I checked the item ID and it came up null. Plus I never have sold anything on Ebay.
Only way I can figure that working is if they think I might be greedy enough to accept a check for something I'm not selling. |
_________________ please feed me in with more info. - Dr. Soludo
Also we found out that some of the officials of the prostates may have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money.
LET ME TELL YOU,SINCE YOU DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE RESPECT,YOU MOUTH MAY PUT YOU INTO TROUBLE. |
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Ghost
419Eater Admin
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 6162
Location: Dating Gal Gadot... in my mind.
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:46 am |
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I think there is or at least was a warning about those Emails on the Ebay web site. I used to get a lot of those about a year ago. Oddly enough to addys I seeded into guestbooks. Go figure. |
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8/11/07-12/15/08 i am totally a looser -Bruce The trophy machine
2/25/08-4/10/10 It is going to cost me more this time - Lawrence, EFCC Lad Deck participant
3/3/08-6/6/10 i know some day you'll send me some real good bucks ok - Byran The Eater Bunny
3/13/08-3/25/10 i have played my path and now I am waiting for the pay - Wale Wild card |
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TheGreatOok
Catbingo
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 2355
Location: Lost in L-Space
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:54 am |
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@Matt - I think that is the idea, I think they are trying to trip up greedy people on this one. This guy may have a bit of a heart and justifies his scamming buy stealing from people who think they are scamming him.
By bit of a heart - I mean a small almost visible by the nekkid eye kind of thing. |
_________________ For Free Bananas Click Here!
HYIP: x3 Banks:
Samuel - Ziguinchor, SE to Dakar, SE - 264 km through Gambia Helping JojoBean
"I knew rigth from the first time you sent email to me that,you are a bloody *DELETED*" - Sgt Daniel Vess
"I NO BLAME U NA DI DIRTY TOTO WEN BORN U NA IM I BLAME. CATBINGO" - Lee Wong
"I AM EQUAL TO A MENTAL RETARDED PERSON" - Alvan Ben
"You have pushed me to the wall and i will make you smell yourself i bet." - George Martins
"THE FOOL STOLE YOUR US$755, HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO LEAVE ON THE PLANET" - Jim Ovia
- for a perfect brown nosing job.
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crossfire
Elite Baiter
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 1152
Location: ten light years away
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:44 am |
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Send the scam mail to [email protected], and they will shut it down, I have many time sent them, now if you get paypal scam mail, you would send it to [email protected], I have also sent many to paypal. |
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Lord Nelson
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 11 Nov 2003
Posts: 50
Location: I can't remember.
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Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:11 am |
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Usually these are phishing rather than a 419 scam as such. The
emails look like offical ebay ones - complete with a link to
click on to log onto ebay. Of course the link is to what looks like
ebay, but isn't. Those who fall for it will try to log on, and then
the website captures their username and password. The more
sophisticated ones then forward you to ebay and log you in for
real so you are none the wiser.
If they have no link - then maybe they are just using them to
test if there is a real account at your end. If the mail doesn't
bounce then they know somebody is there.
If you could post the email here we could take a quick look.
Cheers
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why do you keep writing back to me fool bastard
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My late father was among the few blacks-Zimbabwe rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the KILLER SQUERDS
Michael you jumped in to my life and destroyed it.
fuck to you and you Bush sheet
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