Curious about ebay

[Duane Bozarth]

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I got's three twelves and a four I'll e-mail... :)

[Woodchuck Bill]

"Charlie Self" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Remind me to never get on your bad side, Charlie. ;-)

Indeed.

[Duane Bozarth]

...re phishing...

I can't conceive to whom in the world they could possibly "look legitimate".

I am absolutely amazed that , , responded to any of this... :(

[Gary]

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER...click on a link within an email thinking you're going to a legitimate log in screen. Always, close the email and log in on the secure webpage as you normally do. I've had legitimate brokers and banks actually try to get me to do this and I give their security department a stern lecture each time. OBTW, NEVER click on a link to a login screen within an email.

Gary

[Robert Bonomi]

There are the following issues with regard to _any_ "phishing" scam: 1) identifying the perpetrator(s) 2) figuring out what legal jurisdiction(s) they are in 3) figuring out what, IF ANY, _crime_, the 'misrepresented solicitation' is in *THAT* jurisdiction. (national? provincial? municipal?) 4) figuring out what language the authorities there speak, to report the criminal act. 5) figuring out who to file the criminal complaint with. 6) figuring out how to get _them _to_ prosecute.

Similar issues apply with regard to getting the web-site knocked down, when

*it* is off-shore. unless eBay is registered to do business in _that_ jurisdiction, they can't even claim trademark protection *there*.

Even in the U.S. I'm not sure what crime it is, **IF ANY**, to trick somebody into revealing 'sensitive' account information. To -use- that information once you have it is definitely a crime -- any of several sorts, depending on the use to which that information was put.

This leaves trademark misrepresentation and/or 'dilution of trademark' as possible avenues.

[Woodchuck Bill]

[e-mail] (Robert Bonomi) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Isn't unsolicited, commercial spam e-mail considered a crime in some jurisdictions now?

Yeah, but by that time the crooks can be in the clear...leaving only a very blurry, multi-offshore-jurisdiction trail behind.

[Dave Hinz]

I subscribe to spamcop.net for 30 bucks a year, they block 98 or 99% of the crap that would normally get to me. Another approach is to have a whitelist set up - zaep from rhinosoft.com is great, if you have windows and an always-on network connection. Once you (or they) whitelist a sender, their mail comes right through; new ones need to be approved by either you or, if you want, them. Unless your friends turn into spammers, that should block 100% of it.

[Robert Bonomi]

Answers for that depend on the platform. And whether you have control of the mailserver, or can only do 'filtering' when you read your inbox.

Good freeware tools include "MIMEdefang", and Spamassassin". You may hae to rummage for a while to find an implementation varient that fits your platform and method of use.

Google is your friend.

[Allan Matthews]

Only what they send me when I forward one of these to them and notice a few hours later that the website the scammer tries to send me to is no longer there. Allan

[Steve]

I'll give you fourteen threes - you'll make a $2 profit!

--Steve

Duane Bozarth wrote:

[bridger]

I know a woman, a loan officer at a mortgage company, no less, who did just that. blew me away.

[Dave Balderstone]

Check out

The only reason these thieves are out there is that people are more greedy than they are smart.

djb

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Millions of unsuspecting people out there. If you go to the web page they link you to, the logos and text are generally stolen from the real web page.

Just because people own a computer it does not make them smarter than the ones that fall for the mail scams in official looking envelopes.

[Lee Gordon]

[Lee Gordon]

[Lee Gordon]

I seem to get dozens of emails every week informing me that the mortgage application they imply I have filed with them has now been approved and asking me what I'm waiting for. I am so sorely tempted to reply to them (but of course I'm not going to) that because their email to me is so sloppy -- littered with spelling and typographical errors -- I feel I can't trust them to properly attend to the details of my finances so I will be taking my business elsewhere

Lee.

[Bob Schmall]

Best idea I've seen is a law that penalizes the spammers $1.00 for each offense. That means for each contact: send a million, spend a million. Of course we need some leverage with ISPs to uncover them.

Bob

[Duane Bozarth]

[Duane Bozarth]

Bob Schmall wrote: ...

Bigger problem is leverage w/ home jurisdiction...

[WillR]

Look for the "Busted up Cowgirl" Link a little way down the page.

world's funniest description of e-Bay scammers and the 419 scam...

--=20 Will R. Jewel Boxes and Wood Art

power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those=20 who have not got it.=94 George Bernard Shaw