Monday, January 28, 2008

Another Really Stupid eBay Spoof Spam Email

The eBay spoof email spam of the day: today I received an email with this subject line: "You've received an answer to your question about item 50 Acre island in South
Pacific."  Click into the email and it's a fake response to an "ask seller a question" I never asked:







Dear
julia wilkinson,


Please make up your mind, or i will report you
as a non paying bidder!
John

Do a mouseover on the embedded link, and you can see it links to an url with a redirect. Even the first part of the url looks legit. But if you look closely the rest of the url is a scam.



Just remember to mouse over these urls if you're ever not sure if it's legit. In this case, the subject line looked off, too.



2 comments:

  1. "50 Acre island in South Pacific"? I wish!

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  2. I got this one today and suspected a scam. Whenever I get these I'm curious as to what that scam is but don't want to follow the links to find out.

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