Being SPOOF on Ebay for selling items

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• Kevin Wood Posts: 1,266

  2007-02-01 06:41 edited 2007-02-01 06:41

  There is a lot of that going on. After an incident that I think resulted in my resume being phished, I started to do some research on internet security, which led me to an interesting article on the underground economy associated with cybercrime. If anybody is interested in reading it, here's the page link:
  
  www.usenix.org/publications/login/2006-12/index.html
• metron9 Posts: 1,100

  2007-02-01 07:43 edited 2007-02-01 07:43

  Cut their hands off I say.... My brother went through the same thing, clicked on the supposed ebay link in his email, what a mess.
  
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• sam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286

  2007-02-01 17:07 edited 2007-02-01 17:07

  metron9
  
  I am with you on this ONE .........Yea CUT There Hands OFF so they Can Not Play Like That Any More
  
  
  Kevin Wood
  
  When i get home i will read what they have to say i at work right now and can not all ways open pdf on this computer it real old
  
  Thanks for you link to this page
  
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• Paul Baker Posts: 6,351

  2007-02-01 19:50 edited 2007-02-01 19:50

  In an open environment such as the internet, anyone can access it, so naturally crooks are going to utilize it for thier own gain. Here is a valuable piece of advice, never use a link provided in an email unless it is from someone you personally know (even then you need to be careful because they may have been infected with an Outlook virus which used thier address book to propagate). If you receive an email (which seems to come) from an entity you do business with, never ever click on any link they provide (the only exception is a demand driven response such as registering at a site and they require you to confirm your identity). Always manually point your browser (by hand typing thier address in) to access thier site. And remember, a legitimate site will never ask you to reconfirm your login information via an email, anyone doing so is always a phisher.
  
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• sam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286

  2007-02-01 22:01 edited 2007-02-01 22:01

  Paul Baker
  
  Thanks that good advice
  
  I have just got a little to lazy and not being careful enough
  
  The thing was that i was doing was going back and forth between my email
  and the Ebay site and when you log off you are asked for your log in name and pass
  word any way and most of time i would look to see if there was the security icon
  at the bottom of the page and after ward i realies that it was not there
  
  That was my mistake that i made
  
  But you live and hope fully you learn something out of it
  
  I sure have
  
  I have to come up with a better way to go between sites
  
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  Post Edited (sam_sam_sam) : 2/1/2007 10:15:54 PM GMT
• sam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286

  2007-02-01 22:10 edited 2007-02-01 22:10

  Paul Baker
  
  
  
  And remember, a legitimate site will never ask you to reconfirm your login information via an email, anyone doing so is always a phisher.
  
  The thing was it did not ask for anything
  
  It look SO REAL there site did and it was when it said invailed pass word that i new i was in trouble so i just keeped watching the web page for thing that i know i did not put there and report it ebay what had happen
  
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  Post Edited (sam_sam_sam) : 2/1/2007 10:14:28 PM GMT