[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Ebay bad sellers

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:33, Rod Barnhart wrote:

>I have to agree with Glen on this one. It sounds more and more like a

>phishing attempt the more Basil says about it.

>

>My wife deals on eBay all the time, both as a buyer and a seller. The

> only complaint that she has is that most sellers wait for their

> buyers to leave feedback, and will leave a retaliatory negative

> feedback if she leaves them negative (even though she always pays

> same day when she's buying, and ships within 24 hours when she's

> selling). But she gets a phishing email every now and then for there

> or Amazon that she has to ask me about (I spent too many years at in

> tech support for an ISP, and some of them nearly fool me too!) before

> she clicks the link.

>

>Rod

>

FWIW guys & gals, I probably delete 20 ebay/paypall phishing msgs a day 
that Spamassassin catches & sorts to the JunqueMail directory.

Since I've not done any business with either in over a year due to ebays 
policy's re putting buyer and seller in touch with each other, I just 
delete the darned things.

Having cleaned that up about 30 minutes ago, I don't have any samples to 
paste in here.  However, I do recommend Spamassassin, its miss level 
after a bit of training is down past .01% and approaching zero with 
only the new formats getting past it in several weeks now.  They get 
fed to sa-learn-spam as does the false positives in getting fed to 
sa-learn-ham.



>On 2/26/06, Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Basil,

>> Athough this may sound like a stupid question, but are you sure that

>> this is

>> not a phisher? If this is an e-mail, I would be awful suspicious

>> that with "No Name" in there, it would be a very lazy phisher, or is

>> this right in your E-bay "My Ebay" page

>> -Glen

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