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Re: New Ebay Scam

To: 6pack@autox.team.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: New Ebay Scam
From: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:39:10 -0400
acekraut11@aol.com wrote:

> Hi List:
> 
> Today I received one of those spam ebay emails with a new twist.  This 
> one said that I had won an auction but was in danger of being reported 
> to ebay for not paying and encouraged me to click on the link to sort 
> this terrible situation out.  Of course they used all of the ebay logos 
> and the email looks official.  They even used an invalid link to a valid 
> auction.  My fear was that someone might have used my ebay name to 
> purchase something that I wasnt aware of.  I pulled up a clean copy of 
> my browser and pulled up ebay and checked the auction winner, which, 
> amazingly enough, wasnt me.
> 
> Thought you ebay users might want to know.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Aaron Cropley
> 71 TR6 (Throttle Body Injection!)
> http://www.triumphowners.com/108
> Topsham, Maine
> 

FWIW, I delete any email from paypal or eBay. Don't even look at it anymore. It 
would surprise me if 
anyone at eBay or paypal would think their customers would open an email from 
them considering all 
the scamming that goes on with it.

Don Malling




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