[meteorite-list] eBay Scam?

[Darren Garrison]

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:09:29 -0700, Michael L Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>        I have received a post, supposedly from ebay, saying I have been
>temporarily suspended and I should go to the link they provide to
>verify my account.
>        Of course they want my information, which I will not give - they
>sent a warning about a week ago saying if I didn't go and "verify"
>my information they would suspend me.
>        Anyone else get one of these? I would copy/paste it below, but
>my cursor freezes when I click on it and I can't even open another
>email.

As someone else mentioned recently in that other fishing thread, NO legit web site, not Paypal, not
Ebay, not Amazon, NOBODY, will EVER send you an e-mail with a link that you have to click to enter
account information.  If you get an e-mail like that, it is a scam one hundred percent of the time.
Valid businesses will tell you to go to the site and log on and enter the information.

I would also suggest to you and everyone to TURN OFF all html and xml and Active-X and every single
other feature in e-mails than plain text and only plain text.  There are just too many ways people
can get into your system with e-mails that contain html or other components, even if you do not
click on the items.  Anything more than plain ASCII text in e-mails is pointless and dangerous.