[Amps] Fraudulent email to amps posters

[Will Matney]

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 names they harvested. Generally it says your ebay account is going to be cancelled and want you to log into their website to update it. You can have some fun out of them as the website will accept any login/pass you give it since that's what they're after. After your in and they start asking questions, I fill in all the lines with "your busted" then report them to ebay. If your not experienced in what to do to aggravate them, I wouldn't attempt logging on to their fake page. In order to get it to go through, you have to give it a fake credit card number. One thing to always look for, the real ebays URL will always start with HTTPS and not HTTP. HTTPS means it's a secure website. The link on the e-mail will always say ebay, but the real link underneath will go to a fake page. Also, look at the full headers on the e-mail and you can see exactly who sent it.

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On 8/6/05 at 5:59 PM Tony King - W4ZT wrote:

>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 list mirror to hide poster's 
>email addresses but it isn't done.
>
>Be sure to NEVER respond to those attempts to fraudulently gain access 
>to your Ebay and PayPal accounts.
>
>I'll be blocking all email to this address and resubscribing with a new
>one.
>
>73, Tony W4ZT
>
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