Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:47:04 -0800
Reply-To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Buying Vans on e-Bay
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RE: Does anyone know how it is possible for "The Criminal
Element" to do such a thing. I thought that with a vehicle purchase
on e-Bay a buyer had the "Right" to retract a bid once he found out
that the vehicle wasn't as advertised.
I don't know how it is being done but I ran into a real slick one last week
that even had eBay fooled for a short time.
I have several standing searches on eBay that run every night. One day last
week my email from eBay had a 'new listing' in it for one of the items I've
been watching for. I clicked on the link provided by eBay and got a perfect
looking eBay page. BUT I also got an immediate warning from software I run
that it was probably a bogus site. A look at the URL confirmed that it was
NOT a normal eBay address. I tried to contact eBay about it but there was
no way to get to them that I could find. The usual mail to spoof@ebay was
bounced, that address is only good if forwarding a phishing message. Later
in the day I checked and the listing was gone from eBay. But some one had
figured out a way to redirect, probably code buried in an actual listing on
eBay.
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