Warning! For Coming Together Authours

[rgraham666]

Something odd is happening.

I have been receiving e-mails through my link at erotica anthology. Mostly people selling stocks with a few Viagra offers thrown in.

But I just received this.

Dear eBay Member!

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the eBay system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account. For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. To review your account and some or all of the information that eBay used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Centre.


Please click here to visit the Resolution Centre

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience.

*The eBay Team*
Copyright © 1999-2006 eBay.

I've never done business with eBay. I've visited occasionally, but so far as I know have no account there.

When I clicked on the link, the website that came up asked for a credit card number and nothing else! It sure looks like someone is phishing for credit cards.

So be warned. If you get this, delete it.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I've had similar, but re PayPal. As Alex de Kok exists only in the murk of my imagination he has neither credit card nor PayPal account. The real me has both. There's a link on the PayPal site for anyone who has an account for these things to be reported, so I did.

Alex

 

[rgraham666]

Update.

Almost certainly a phisher.

I sent an e-mail to the address that sent the above mentioned missive.

I just got a return letter that says that address is no longer in service.

You can't help but wonder what the dishonest would accomplish if they put as much energy into ethical pursuits.

 

[R. Richard]

Update.

Almost certainly a phisher.

I sent an e-mail to the address that sent the above mentioned missive.

I just got a return letter that says that address is no longer in service.

You can't help but wonder what the dishonest would accomplish if they put as much energy into ethical pursuits.

There are a great number of people who phish eBay and, particularly Paypal. The only real cure is to go to the REAL eBay or Paypal site and find out what the situation is.

Actually, you will find that most of those who engage in dishonest pursuits do so because they have nothing else to sell. It is crime or hard labor and grinding poverty.

 

[matriarch]

Update.

Almost certainly a phisher.

I sent an e-mail to the address that sent the above mentioned missive.

I just got a return letter that says that address is no longer in service.

You can't help but wonder what the dishonest would accomplish if they put as much energy into ethical pursuits.

This scam has been around for quite a while, I believe some one did a thread on it a little while ago.

Any of those types of mails are all scams, and the best thing to do, after ignoring the content is to forward it to the real E-Bay for them to deal with.

I constantly get the same message from the major UK banks. But as I know that no bank would ever ask a client by e-mail to give out such details, I merely forward them to the genuine bank custome service address, and then delete.

Most of the sites being plageurised have warnings on their home pages about such scams, advising their customers NOT to do what the mail is asking, but......there will always be some gullible people out there who will do it.

 

[oggbashan]

I used to have an eBay and a PayPal account as oggbashan.

I rarely used them but received so many phishing emails that I closed both accounts. At its peak I was receiving about 10 phishing e-mails a day.

Og apparently has problems with his accounts with every bank you have ever heard of, and he keeps winning lotteries he hasn't entered, as well as getting 'Private and Confidential' letters from the widows of various Nigerian gentlemen.

My spam emails (as Og) outnumber the genuine by about 5 to 1.

In my real identities the ratio is the other way round.

Jeanne D'Artois and Fag-Ash_Lil are spam deficient.

Og