[Wolves] Ebay Phishing

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 16:47 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 13/09/06, Peter Hartill <peter at hartec.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've been caught by that Ebay scam.  Only ever change your password or other
> > details by going to the Ebay website and logging in.
> >
> > Also there's another Ebay scam: you get an email looking like it came from
> > an Ebay member, asking you a question about an item you sold on Ebay, and
> > "click here" to reply.  If you "click here" it takes you to what looks like
> > a normal Ebay logon page so you can reply, but it's a Phish.  Moral is -
> > only send emails to Ebay members by logging on to your "My Ebay" and do the
> > email from there.
> >
> > Ebay don't help by sending lots of genuine emails from themselves
> > advertising various services, so it's difficult to pick out the genuine ones
> > from the Phishes.
> >

Or install a decent spam filter. Mailscanner on linux will identify
phishing emails and make it obvious that they are not genuine.

Cheers,
Al.