"Sam Goldwasser" wrote in message
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"Mark D. Zacharias" writes:
"Sam Goldwasser" wrote in message
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Don Bowey writes:
On 6/6/08 7:40 PM, in article , "Sam
Goldwasser" wrote:
I have been a member in good standing with eBay since 1999. As
readers
of Sam's Laser FAQ are probably aware, I have acquired a large
number
of
lasers and related items on eBay, most at bargain basement prices.
All
in
all I have been very satisfied with the eBay experience. Until now.
For a blow-by-blow saga of what I'm experiencing now, please go to
http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/ebayhorror1.htm
I will be updating this as it plays out. I expect the outcome to be
satisfactory, but the route it's taking is like one of those
nightmares
where you're trapped on a 15 dimensional mobius strip. 
Comments welcome!
I've not had a problem of that kind with the idiots, but I have
attempted
to
do a problem resolution with them and find them useless droids.
To minimize contact with them I even quit using Paypal, as they wanted
too
much personal information such as checking account, etc. I don't
trust
them
and never will.
Were I you, I'd talk with my attorney about the bad experience.
Good luck; you'll need it.;
For me, I do eBay for fun. It's not like a day job so being kicked off
for a few days may be a good thing. Other than the time I've spent
trying to communicate with the droids and writing up the saga, it gives
me more time for other things. Perhaps they will have done me a favor
if I never get back on!
But I could just imagine if this happened to someone whose business
was selling on eBay.
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Important: Anything sent to the email address in the message header
above
is
ignored unless my full name AND either lasers or electronics is
included
in the
subject line. Or, you can contact me via the Feedback Form in the
FAQs.
Very possibly a phishing e-mail. Any time you get a suspicious e-mail
from
"Ebay" you should NOT respond to any link in the suspect e-mail. Go
directly
to Ebay's security center and give them the details, including the source
code of the suspect e-mail.
Since you clicked on the link contained in the e-mail it is important you
do
virus and malware scans IMMEDIATELY.
I read email in Mutt (a text program) on unix. For me to follow a link
requires copying and pasting, which I will only do IF the URL contains
the primary domain of the supposed sender. This I only do rarely.
And with eBay, there is always the duplicate copy in the "My Messages",
which isn't blocked by being suspended. And don't forgate that those
bid cancellation emails had to have originated from within the eBay
system.
Thanks for your thoughts though.
--- sam | Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ: http://www.repairfaq.org/
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| Mirror Sites: http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_mirror.html
Droids are everywhere now. I get phoney bank e-mails all the time, and they
always start "Dear custooma" or some such mis-spelled nonsense, and the
address that they come from, and have as the reply link, is always a
corruption of the bank's 'real' primary domain. However, a couple of months
back, I received a phishing mail which had, as the first part of the sending
and reply address, the genuine bank's URL.
I mailed the real bank customer service department to inform them that
someone had managed to hijack their primary domain. I went to a lot of
trouble to point out that this was not your usual phishing mail, and was
likely to fool customers who were not *really* paying attention. Back came a
reply saying that what I had experienced was a spoof mail that was really a
phishing exercise and I should not respond to it yada yada yada in full
blown kiddie talk. I replied, and suggested that they were not understanding
what I was saying, and that this was not your standard spoof mail, and that
somehow, someone had managed to gain access to their server. I further
suggested that they should pass this up the chain to someone who better
understood the implications.
Suddenly, last week, I get a form letter from the bank, detailing exactly
what I had told them, and telling not to respond to any such mails in any
way. If the droids had listened to me in the first place, they could have
got on the case two months ago.
Still, it just goes to show that hackers can get into these systems, no
matter how high the security level, and potentially wreak havoc. Good luck
at getting it resolved.
Arfa