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

[Arthur Flexser]

I've only dealt a few times with Ebay, but when I've received legitimate
messages from them, they always contained my Ebay name in the body of the
message.  If the message doesn't contain that, I'd assume it's a phish.
(Of course, if it DOES, it doesn't  guarantee that it's NOT a phish, just makes
the probability much less.)

Art

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> 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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> Cheers, Gene
> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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