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• Todd

  

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  Oct 21, 2004, 2:44 pm

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  I've been getting several e-mails marked ***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice*** and it appears to come from eBay.

  This is a phishing fraud scheme designed to make you think you are logging into your eBay account, whereas what you are really doing is sending a con artist your eBay password so he can rip you off.

  There are similar schemes going around for PayPal and CitiBank, so just be careful never to fall for them.

  These schemes are easy to fall for because they put a link in your e-mail that looks real.  For example, it LOOKS like you are going to http://scgi.ebay.com, but the REAL URL is hiding behind that one.  If you were to click the link it would take you to the scammer's web page, which would be made to look exactly like the real thing.

   

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• Maryland

  

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  Oct 21, 2004, 6:15 pm

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  Got the Paypal twice in two weeks.
• emilyg

  

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  Oct 21, 2004, 6:29 pm

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  thanks todd

  love to nibble those micey feet.

   

                               
• MADDOG10

  

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  Oct 21, 2004, 6:48 pm

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  thanks for the info todd, got an e-mail from pay-pal myself the other day, i didn't open it , and i hope others see this also! 

                                             

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• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  Oct 21, 2004, 9:00 pm

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  these people are getting very good at this stuff that the average person is easily fooled.from day one i've never wanted my banking online.they've asked me numerous times why i don't at the bank and i tell them its just way too easy for some mishap to happen,i might order stuff online but not very much..........
• slotplayer

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  Oct 22, 2004, 4:16 pm

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  Pay pal emails always address the person by name, any others are scams. What about the Good Doctor from Nigeria or some other country with the millions he can't get to with out your help.