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Hi

I know this is not the right forum for this, but plnty of people read it, and hopefully someone will have the answer.

Also it will serve as a warning to the many eBayers here.

I have had a spoof email, purporting to come from email. howevr the links in the email point to a scam site at powerseler.home.ro/ebaymember.htm.

This presents a fake eBay sign-in screen, which I can only assume is being used to harvest eBay IDs and passwords.

I reported this to eBay, but 24 hours later I have recieved another fake email and the `harvesting` site is still running.

I have also reported the site to esuba[at]or.emoh, with no response.

My question to the wise is `Is there anything else I can do`. Who else do I need to report this to.

Please no Flames I am just trying to be a responsible netizen and perhaps save someone some grief.

if you reported it & didn`t log into it, then you have done everything you can. :)

oh, 1 more thing tho, NEVER open a link from a spoof (or any email for that matter) cos that tells them that your email addy is active, so you just get targeted even more, i have friends that get 500+ spam mails a day because of this.

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general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as Chris Ogden

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This item was edited on Friday, 9th September 2005, 17:35

Look, spoof e-mails from Paypal or Ebay have been circulating as long a go as Dinosaurs have been wandering the Earth. If you have only just received one, welcome to the real world.

Never click on links to either site via an e-mail, manually enter the web site address.

However, if you really want to hack off the guys sending you such things, click on the link and put in a false e-mail address and false password and send. Do this 100 times. You wont get another spoof beleive me. The other way to to expand the e-mail headder, find out the hidden domain they are using, it`s simple enough or use Systemworks Deep Site Extractor and complain to the administrator of same or spam their address to all the religious sites you can find. They will have to shut it down as they get hit after religious hit. Pretend you are doing it for the good of their souls.

Its come to a point now that when I recieve an email from Ebay...genuine or not...I always delete it! :¦

If you`re not sure whether an e-mail is genuine or not (and it sounds important), forward it to: foops[at].moc.yaBe They will reply quite quickly telling you if it is real or not and what to do.

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I have been around long enough not to get caught, but whenever I have had these before the offending site has been closed by the time I looked.

My concern is that the site is still up 24 hours later, this scam is not harvesting/verifying emails they are harvesting eBay account details ID/Password.

I have reported to the abuse controller for the host with no response and wanted to know where else it can be reported. Someone somewhere should be able to take action to remove this host from DNS if the host wont take the action.

this scam is not harvesting/verifying emails they are harvesting eBay account details ID/Password.

tbh, they usually do both, unfortunatley curiosity gets the better of a lot of people & they click the link just to look at the fake login screen, not realising that it tells the scammer that the email addy is active, & of course, the cherrys on the top are all the folks that actually try to login :( double whammy.

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general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as Chris Ogden

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If ebay (the REAL ebay) contact you,they will address you by your name.
The spoof email don`t do this.
The same applies to spoof PayPal emails.
Another give away is that the emails seem to always be from Ebay or PayPal.com
If they were genuine,they should be from a .co.uk domain

Also,if you hover your cursor over the log-in link (assuming you have your status bar on view),the link will appear in the status bar(even without clicking on it),& it always seems to be some stupid web address,not what you would expect, i.e. ebay.co.uk/something sensible.

Some links in these emails do however take you to various other kosher ebay web pages.

Basically;
never log in through an email link.

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Basically;
never log in through an email link.
A worthwile rule to live by but even the most cynical and embittered of us can get caught.

Clicked on a very suss CDWow link just a few days ago. Came out of it dead quick and cleaned the system straight after but it`s easy to do.

Snaps

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