| Author | Message | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 970 Registered: 4-2003 |
Totally agree with Andreas... People are so hyped with giving out their cc info over the net but 5 minutes later, they will use the same card at a gas station or a restaurant... Just imagine if those guys would run xerox copies of every cc transaction... Why would crooks use the internet if you can do it with a xerox? Jack | ||
| Dom Vitarella (Dom)
Member Username: Dom Post Number: 426 Registered: 11-2002 |
One time I got one of these, and just went to the site and filled it out with false info. Hopefully caused them a hard time. Dom | ||
| Carl Roberts (Carl63_99)
Junior Member Username: Carl63_99 Post Number: 107 Registered: 10-2001 |
One big flag that this is Spoofing is that when I got these notices, they were NOT for the email that I registered at Ebay through. I forwarded the fraudulent messages to ebay, but there wasn't anything they could do. Ebay, Citibank, and all other ecommerce businesses will verify account info OFFLINE before changing anything. A great idea someone had was to have THEM verify to you the information, which the spoofer will not be able to do. I had a colletion agency harrassing me a long time ago, said my Father owed someone money, but wouldn't answer calls. Since he has lived his entire life in the same small town, I demanded to know WHO did he owe money to. They wouldn't tell me and I told them if they can't provide me with proof that he owes, WTF should I do anything? I told them to stop calling, or I would file a harrassment complaint. They never called again. | ||
| Ron (Easy_rider)
Member Username: Easy_rider Post Number: 716 Registered: 12-2002 |
I got a message like this purported to be from PayPal about 2 months ago. Since I know they would never send an email requesting personal info I forwarded it to the PayPal customer service line. I did not get a reply but I know the request was not from PayPal and was a fraudulent attempt to get my credit card info. | ||
| Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Intermediate Member Username: Tifosi12 Post Number: 1970 Registered: 10-2002 |
The thing I always wondered is, that if you were a crook the easiest access to cc info would be to work in a restaurant for a couple of weeks. That should give you all the info incl. signatures you ever wanted. Why even bother with traceable internet fraud like this? Anyway, I think I have too much negative energy this morning... | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Intermediate Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 1767 Registered: 7-2002 |
what is funny to me is that I work for a software company and I have probably 20 or 30 customer databases with millions of valid credit card #s/names in them. Basically we process all credit card swipes from the store level to the processor and then to the bank. If I was a crook I could probably do something with all those! | ||
| Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
Member Username: Future328driver Post Number: 548 Registered: 12-2001 |
CitiBank is having a problem with e-mails like this asking to verify checking account numbers. I got one last week. | ||
| Sam Germana (Sjmst)
New member Username: Sjmst Post Number: 48 Registered: 7-2003 |
This is called "Spoofing." That name makes it sound like harmless fun, but of course it is fraud. It is NOT from ebay. They would never ask you pin numbers or other such info. I know, because I get these and forward to ebay. They actually have a link to report the bogus messages, but it is hard to find. | ||
| Thomas Saupe (Tom_s)
Junior Member Username: Tom_s Post Number: 64 Registered: 1-2003 |
I've gotten this message several times and have ignored it. Glad I did now, it always looked a bit fishy. Beware, I have recieved the same type of message (supposedly) from Amazon. | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Intermediate Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 1766 Registered: 7-2002 |
go to www.networksolutions.com and look under the whois function and type in the final web site addy. It "should" tell you who the site is registered to unless it was registerd through some other service and the records will have truncated contact info. | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Intermediate Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 1765 Registered: 7-2002 |
is the .dll file in the address the culprit? dll's are basically executables and I imagine it could reroute you or do whatever the dll is suposed to do. | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Senior Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 5870 Registered: 5-2001 |
I know. The problem is if you break down the code you can find out who the site belongs to and go after them. How stupid. They will end up in jail! | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Intermediate Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 1764 Registered: 7-2002 |
My grandma got a call awhile back asking her to verify her visa #. Luckily she didn't give it out. I couldn't believe it as I was standing there when the call came. I have only heard about things like this. | ||
| Justyn (Justynb)
Junior Member Username: Justynb Post Number: 67 Registered: 4-2003 |
If you type that link into a browser you get an error message. I think you'll find that when you click the image it is linked to a completely different site and the image is intended to deceive you into thinking you are going to ebay, especially if you are not very HTML savvy. Just delete it! Justyn. | ||
| Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Intermediate Member Username: Tifosi12 Post Number: 1967 Registered: 10-2002 |
I got several official looking emails from ebay asking me to update my credit card info. Since I'm a buyer, not a seller on ebay I see no need for that and ignored it. Right or wrong? | ||
| dave wilson (Dlwilson)
New member Username: Dlwilson Post Number: 10 Registered: 2-2003 |
I just got the same email and was also suspicious. Not wanting to risk problems with ebay, I just deleted the email which is probably a spam scam and went directly to ebay to check and update my info. Dave | ||
| Martin - Cavallino Motors (Miami348ts)
Senior Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 5866 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have received an e-mail today with a link to veryfy my account info. They ask all kinds of questions. The text is a gif file, which makes it impossible to copy and paste to e-bay. The link is highly suspicious. Never give out SS# and account info and PIN or Credit card security codes to ANYONE! This is fraud for sure and can cost you big time!  |