Anyone else receiving email with fraudulent attempts to gain access to your Ebay and PayPal accounts being sent to the address you use to post to this list? It would seem reasonable to expect the lis
Tony, I was getting them all the time on that old account. What they do is use an e-mail harvester on these popular websites, forums, and blogs. They then send out the fake website to everyone whos n
Anyone else receiving email with fraudulent attempts to gain access to your Ebay and PayPal accounts being sent to the address you use to post to this list? I had, and wondered where it had originate
Hi All one needs to do is delete everything unexpected from paypal or ebay! exception is emails from stuff your watching,biding on etc. There is a area of my ebay where messages from ebay and paypal
I have an address which I only used for a few tests, never to a list and ven it gets spam, so changing your address may not do a lot of good, except temporarily. Today I received some spam addressed
These false posts are very well done, and use the logo of ebay and PayPal. These two companies have set up a separate address you can forward to, to check. Forward any suspect post to: Spoof@ebay.com
Yes, I'm sure a lot (myself included) do. They rely on the 0.001% of people who are either new to the web, or total idiots. I would agree with you there. Most mailing lists (including this one) use M
A couple of years ago my daughter had downloaded an installed a piece of software which installed a driver on her local computer that caused the web browser to form links based on certain keywords di
Larry, That's what they call a browser hijacker. It can only be done to Microsofts Internet Explorer (IE). A lot of sites, let's say on the shady side, automatically upload and install the hijackers
Will, Thanks for the info. I'm using Ad-Aware with the XP box. Great piece of software for a freebee. I have a couple computers, one with XP installed and the other uses Fedora Core 3. Using the Mozi
Rich, Why did you chose the Apple over other computers/OS's? Larry N5BIP Interesting. I run Apple's OS10.3. tnx, Larry Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734. www.somis.org _________________________
My wife bought a Mac Plus through her school c. 1987, I discovered that it was easier to use than a typewriter, scissors, and glue, so I began to write the magazine articles that were lounging around
Taking note of the many comments made about IE and OE, I am now using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and Firefox for the web as of last evening. What a difference!! T-bird has a spam and junk filter t
Gary, I use Opera for the browser as it has one of the best pop-up stoppers and best security they are, just as good as Firefox as I've ran it too. Opera has a built in e-mail client also. I don't us
Hi, I have received some spams with address probably trawled from here, the usual fake Ebay and Paypal correspondence with links to faked pages. Often you can find that the servers are owned by legit