What the hell? (ebay content)

[Loren Littlejohn]

So I open up my (what I thought was) privrate email account that I do not give out to anyone unless they are a human being (so not stupid companies buisness shit etc...)

And there is this awsome message:

"NON PAYING BIDDER ALERT NR.3--RESPOND NOW"

"Dear eBay member,

It's been 3 weeks since you won my auction and you haven't sent the payment yet. I will report you to the police and to eBay right away. You will receive a non paying bidder report and your eBay account will be suspended imediately. You are a bad person and you deserve this. Bye bye."


Now this is obviously a mistake (since this is not the email account I have attached to my ebay account) and I did contact him telling him he had the wrong address/person (since I didn't get the first 2 notices).

Whats funny is he can't do shit LEAGALLY about someone not paying, he still has his merch and whoever didn't pay still has there money so I dunno what he is smokin. Plus he is in GERMANY (lol I don't order anything from Germany since it would probably take a month to arrive, ) so yeah lol.

 

[LSD-Studio]

why do you bother? it's not your account he's talking about.

 

[2dark]

that's just common spammer practice. they send out automated emails to your email host or your domain to scare people and make them reply. that way they know this email address is real.

annoying as hell but nothing you can do about it. once we tried to hunt one fucker down and hack that bastard but it's just too time wasting and you get nothing in return for it. that was before all those new anti-hacking laws ;-)

 

[::XeS::]

it's spam not a real message

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Yeah, pure spam. You should never, ever reply to these messages. Now they know your email address is active and it's messages are being read, so they'll send more, more and more

 

[~BURNY~]

It could be a fishing attempt. Was a link included in the mail? Anyway you should report this to ebay and change your password at least.

 

[Pman]

it's spam not a real message

+1

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah changed my password. Noified the seller of it (he was legit it turns out)

Plus it was funny since I am on a mac I can see what people are trying to do and the fake link that said "respond now" went to a fishing site (it said it in the title bar).

Just another reason macs win.

 

[doc_backmask]

Plus it was funny since I am on a mac I can see what people are trying to do and the fake link that said "respond now" went to a fishing site (it said it in the title bar).

Just another reason macs win.

Don't want to start a war, but PC's can do this, too. Just have to hover the cursor over the link.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Good point but how many people do that instead of freak out and hit that button?

 

[everybody's x]

Good point but how many people do that instead of freak out and hit that button?

the ones who aren't dumb-asses :Smug:

 

[doc_backmask]

the ones who aren't dumb-asses :Smug:

Sadly, the vast majority of all computer users fall into the other category.

 

[everybody's x]

very true