It is particularly bad on ebay tonight. I saw the naked babe thing when I was browsing through "Barracuda". Got the fake ebay iD pop up. Weird because I usually have pop ups blocked. Also ran into the ones where the $30k cars are $5000 "buy it now". One was a 57 Desoto from "Duffy's" in colorado. The "Duffy's" building awning with the name on it was prominantly displayed behind the car. What a lazy criminal. He has also hijacked the ID of some mom and pop antique business. Hummel porcelin figures and then some heavyweight classic cars. This sounds like the work of ENRON doesn't it? We're becoming a nation harrassed by thieves with computer skills. Didn't these people have parents or were they raised by woilves? Fuckity-Fuck-Fuck-Fuck!
I have the eBay Toolbar - it's very, very good at spotting spoof sites & phishing web pages. I don't run it normally because I have too many toolbars already! But when one of these email phishing scams does get through and it looks reasonably official, I can still ususally tell by looking at the link properties - if it's still "iffy", I'll load up eBay toolbar & click the link. I always refresh the page if the toolbar doesn't ID it right away. There will be a red banner & it will forward you to a "report this site" dialogue box...I often will just use the toolbar to report the sites as quickly as they come in... If you're getting a lot of these & you're not comfortable enough to figure the links out, get the toolbar.
When it happens to me it launched a trojan virus as well. http://www.nsra.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21153
Mannnnnnnn, Even I get the phishing ads asking me to verify my PayPal info. Funny thing................I DONT HAVE A PAYPAL Account!!!!!!!!!! Buwahahhahahaha............. I just delete every message from them as e-bay doesnt send out messages like that.
what kinda trojan virus was it? ya remember? if i did find a scam site, it was on my dad's computer and i'd like to fix it...
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