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WARNING WARNING NEW EBAY HOAX EMAIL TO GET YOUR INFO

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Posted by cacole on Friday, May 27, 2005 11:20 AM
I just received a new twist on this scam this morning --

"The XXX knife set you ordered is ready to ship. Just click here to confirm your purchase and the payment will be automatically deducted from your Pay-Pal account."

The only trouble is, I have never ordered any type of knife set from anyone....

DELETE -- DELETE -- DELETE

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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:16 AM
"I also get lots of dire warnings from banks that I have never heard of, demanding that if I don't confirm my account number within three hours I will be forever banished from using their credit card."

Boy, I wish I'd get some of those; then after I ignored them, I'd be removed from thier junk mail lists!!! [^][:D][^][^][:D][^]
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Posted by Tom The Brat on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:01 AM
Something about training your dog...
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Posted by cacole on Monday, May 23, 2005 9:00 PM
Gee, I feel slighted -- I haven't received an e-mail offer from my Nigerian Princess for over a month now.... I wonder what new scheme they're cooking up?

Maybe this e-bay scam is them in disguise.

I also get lots of dire warnings from banks that I have never heard of, demanding that if I don't confirm my account number within three hours I will be forever banished from using their credit card.

You should NEVER respond to any type of message like these.
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Posted by Tom The Brat on Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:49 PM
Nothing new about there being a new one of those. Remember, EBAY never sends emails like that.
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Posted by mgilger on Saturday, May 14, 2005 4:28 PM
I'm very active on Ebay and my wife and I both get several of these a week. Just have to remember that Ebay will NEVER email anyone. If you get an email that looks like it's from Ebay. Delete it.

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Mark

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 14, 2005 4:27 PM
William
thanks for the heads up!
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WARNING WARNING NEW EBAY HOAX EMAIL TO GET YOUR INFO
Posted by rtraincollector on Saturday, May 14, 2005 3:52 PM
They state " RKOEBAYSUPORT@EBAY.COM Your bid has been cancle click this link to see why. it will give an auction number I went to ebay serch on another page and entered the auction number in and it was nothing I ever bidded on so that was my second hint I foward email to spoof@ebay.com . I felt something was wrong from word go I always check another way befor I click on a link if I'm not sure its who it says it is if you goto any of the other links you will see this warning as I'm going to put it in all forums.

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