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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on November 18, 2003, 09:08:01 AM

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: gofaster on November 18, 2003, 09:08:01 AM

There's a current scam/virus being sent out to try and infect your machine and get your credit card numbers.  The virus comes as an attachment in an email that purports to come from Pay Pal, saying that your account is about to expire and they need your up to date card data, but is really just running a program to steal your credit card info.

Story is here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=7&u=/pcworld/20031117/tc_pcworld/113478).

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: john9001 on November 18, 2003, 09:43:27 AM

about once a month i geta e-mail from people who claim to be my ISP, they say they had a core dump or something and lost all my data and i have to resend it or they will close my account, i have reported them to my real ISP.

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: Ripsnort on November 18, 2003, 10:09:32 AM

Thks gofaster. Sent it to wife.

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: Pongo on November 18, 2003, 10:24:23 AM

thanks for warning

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: Hawklore on November 18, 2003, 10:32:52 AM

thnks, sent it to mom.

Title: eBayers beware!
Post by: gofaster on November 18, 2003, 11:29:54 AM

The funny thing is, my wife said she'd gotten a couple of the scam emails at her work address this morning so I checked my email, personal and business, and didn't get anything at either one.  She never goes on eBay but I'm on it about as much as I'm on this forum. :p