[sdiy] WARNING: Ebay SPOOF stealing account & personal info

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

I received a similar message claiming to be Citibank.
I sent the message to the FBI who told me there was an
ongoing investigation into these kinds of scams.

In general, legitimate businesses will not ask for
passwords or PIN numbers to be sent 'in the clear'
i.e. without encryption. Any email that does ask for
these things is automatically suspect.

The Internet is like a bazarre in an exotic foreign
country. One has to be very careful walking into a
place like that. Most of the shopkeepers are on the
level, but there is a wiley character around every
corner waiting to scam a sucker.

--TimR

--- "DIY at Technotransplant.com"
<synthdiy at technotransplant.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the off topic post but there has just
> begun a spoof email
> that has claimed and looks to be from ebay.
> 
> It request bank, credit card, social security,
> paypal login and more.
> 
> Please do not submit this information.  We have
> confirmed with ebay it
> is NOT FROM EBAY.


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