Attention! 14n on ebay and the following

eike f. hübner · Nov 19, 2002

Hi there!

Sorry for my bad english, but I have to warn you all. Since I first saw the 14n on ebay, I wrote ebay a letter to cut that thing off (how many of you did too).
But I wrote that guy a letter and faked interest...
Now I got a letter from [email protected]
This letter shown exactly this (look up the link, but DAMN YOU NOT GIVE
YOUR EBAY NUMBER AND PASSWORD):

Dear Customer.

You are receiving this email because we need to include
you in our new
coustomer protection plan.All you have to do is proceed
whit these
3 simple steps.

1.Click on this
link: http://www.auctions-safeharbor.com/ebay/Confirm.htm

2.Enter your eBay username and password

3.Click on the CONFIRM button

After that we will include your account in our brand
new Account Protection Program.

Best Regards,
eBay Team

DO NOT DO THIS!
IT´S A FRAUD!

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Like you can see, ít has nothing to do with ebay... It´s some site of some
criminals who want to steal ebay-ids.
I always wondered how people could steal those IDs, now I now it.
On the ebay-Site (i can remember) there you can read: all ebay-links have

http://www.ebay.com (or. .de or else) in it. But this link only shows ebay after a slash... That is exactly as believable like ebay has link to http://www.horny.com/ebay/etc . ...

So if you ever get such an email, delete it!
I am now going to report this to ebay...

Have a good day!

-eike

Boris · Nov 19, 2002

eike f. hübner said:
Hi there!

Sorry for my bad english, but I have to warn you all. Since I first
saw the 14n on ebay, I wrote ebay a letter to cut that thing off
(how many of you did too).
But I wrote that guy a letter and faked interest...
Now I got a letter from [email protected]
This letter shown exactly this (look up the link, but DAMN YOU NOT
GIVE
YOUR EBAY NUMBER AND PASSWORD):

Dear Customer.

You are receiving this email because we need to include
you in our new
coustomer protection plan.All you have to do is proceed
whit these
3 simple steps.

1.Click on this
link: http://www.auctions-safeharbor.com/ebay/Confirm.htm

2.Enter your eBay username and password

3.Click on the CONFIRM button

After that we will include your account in our brand
new Account Protection Program.

Best Regards,
eBay Team

DO NOT DO THIS!
IT´S A FRAUD!

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:05:07 -0800 (PST)
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Message-Id:

Like you can see, ít has nothing to do with ebay... It´s some site
of some
criminals who want to steal ebay-ids.
I always wondered how people could steal those IDs, now I now it.
On the ebay-Site (i can remember) there you can read: all
ebay-links have
http://www.ebay.com (or. .de or else) in it. But this link only shows ebay
after a slash... That is exactly as believable like ebay has link
to http://www.horny.com/ebay/etc . ...

So if you ever get such an email, delete it!
I am now going to report this to ebay...

Have a good day!

-eike

Danke for this iformation...
Boris
http://www.fotki.com/borysd

tom jacobson · Nov 19, 2002

Boy, this is scary stuff. I also acted like I was interested in the 14N and got an email from the guy in Paris! The listing showed it was in the US. Pure scam.

eike f. hübner said:
Hi there!

Sorry for my bad english, but I have to warn you all. Since I first
saw the 14n on ebay, I wrote ebay a letter to cut that thing off
(how many of you did too).
But I wrote that guy a letter and faked interest...
Now I got a letter from [email protected]
This letter shown exactly this (look up the link, but DAMN YOU NOT
GIVE
YOUR EBAY NUMBER AND PASSWORD):

Dear Customer.

You are receiving this email because we need to include
you in our new
coustomer protection plan.All you have to do is proceed
whit these
3 simple steps.

1.Click on this
link: http://www.auctions-safeharbor.com/ebay/Confirm.htm

2.Enter your eBay username and password

3.Click on the CONFIRM button

After that we will include your account in our brand
new Account Protection Program.

Best Regards,
eBay Team

DO NOT DO THIS!
IT´S A FRAUD!

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To: (my email Adress)
From: "[email protected]"
Return-Path: [email protected]
Subject: eBay Account Protection
X-Sent-From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:05:07 -0800 (PST)
X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.1.0-7_sol28
Message-Id:

Like you can see, ít has nothing to do with ebay... It´s some site
of some
criminals who want to steal ebay-ids.
I always wondered how people could steal those IDs, now I now it.
On the ebay-Site (i can remember) there you can read: all
ebay-links have
http://www.ebay.com (or. .de or else) in it. But this link only shows ebay
after a slash... That is exactly as believable like ebay has link
to http://www.horny.com/ebay/etc . ...

So if you ever get such an email, delete it!
I am now going to report this to ebay...

Have a good day!

-eike

--
TJ

Montypyfly · Nov 19, 2002

From the real E-bay announcement page.... :

Protect Your eBay Password and Your Personal Information

eBay treats your personal information with the utmost care, and our Privacy Policy is designed to protect you and your information.

Some members have reported attempts to gain access to their personal information through email solicitations that are falsely made to appear as having come from eBay. These solicitations will often contain links to Web pages that will request that you sign in and submit information. At eBay, we identify these as 'spoofed' emails or Web sites.

We encourage you to be very cautious of emails that ask you to submit personal information such as your credit card number or your eBay password.

To be sure that you are signing into a genuine eBay Web site, look at the Address/ Location area of your browser. At an eBay.com sign-in or log-in page, the URL (link) that appears in the Address/Location area of your browser will begin with "http: cgi.ebay.com/". Please pay close attention to all characters in the address, including the forward slash ( ) that follows "ebay.com". Even if the Address/Location includes the word "ebay", it may not be a genuine eBay Web site. If you receive or suspect you have received such an email, do not respond to it or click the links. Immediately send a copy of it to [email protected].

If you have any doubt as to whether or not the website you are on is an official eBay web page, please visit our Account Security page for more complete information on the URLs used on eBay web pages.

For more information on how to protect your eBay password and your account, click here.

Regards,
eBay
--
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Nikon (x3) & Olympus (x2) 35mm film
Hasselblad 120 (x3)
Oly E-10 and smaller digital

tom jacobson · Nov 19, 2002

I know that EBAY is trying to deal with this problem, but one can only expect it to multiply as these cheats learn how to trick the public. This is going to have a real inpact on EBAY in the future. Up to now, I thought the system was fairly foolproof, especially with the feedback feature. Now, we have to be sure that the seller is really the seller!!! When someone steals a password and ID from another seller, does not the original seller know that someone has used his ID to list an item? I guess these cheats have the email address for the seller changed to theirs! BIG PROBLEM.
TJ

Montypyfly said:
From the real E-bay announcement page.... :

Protect Your eBay Password and Your Personal Information

eBay treats your personal information with the utmost care, and our
Privacy Policy is designed to protect you and your information.

Some members have reported attempts to gain access to their
personal information through email solicitations that are falsely
made to appear as having come from eBay. These solicitations will
often contain links to Web pages that will request that you sign in
and submit information. At eBay, we identify these as 'spoofed'
emails or Web sites.

We encourage you to be very cautious of emails that ask you to
submit personal information such as your credit card number or your
eBay password.

To be sure that you are signing into a genuine eBay Web site, look
at the Address/ Location area of your browser. At an eBay.com
sign-in or log-in page, the URL (link) that appears in the
Address/Location area of your browser will begin with "http:
cgi.ebay.com/". Please pay close attention to all characters in the
address, including the forward slash ( ) that follows "ebay.com".
Even if the Address/Location includes the word "ebay", it may not
be a genuine eBay Web site. If you receive or suspect you have
received such an email, do not respond to it or click the links.
Immediately send a copy of it to [email protected].

If you have any doubt as to whether or not the website you are on
is an official eBay web page, please visit our Account Security
page for more complete information on the URLs used on eBay web
pages.

For more information on how to protect your eBay password and your
account, click here.

Regards,
eBay
--
-Glenn- AssociatedPhoto.com
Nikon (x3) & Olympus (x2) 35mm film
Hasselblad 120 (x3)
Oly E-10 and smaller digital

--
TJ

dannv · Dec 3, 2002

i received an email last week of similar content purporting to be from [email protected]. the email informed me my account may have been compromised and i needed to click the enclosed link to "reaffirm all my account information" within two days or my account would be canceled.

this note is also a scam. legitimate services will never contact you in this manner...dav

Scott Fleming · Dec 3, 2002

ebay is actually a very scary place. I have always avoided it but recently because I dearly want a certain camera I 'got involved'. There's a lot of junk being foisted off on the 'less than severly paranoid' on ebay. The only help I can offer is that you establish a link with your seller outside ebay and start up a dialog. Be friendly and interested and let them talk. Scammers will trip themselves up. Beware the great story with too many details. Beware the guy who won't get back to you when you e-mail them.

I've pretty much given up getting what I wanted on ebay and am back to watching B&H and Robert White, KEH etc.

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Attention! 14n on ebay and the following

eike f. hübner

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Boris

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tom jacobson

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Montypyfly

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tom jacobson

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dannv

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Scott Fleming

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