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Who would consider using any link supplied in an email from someone they don't know personally? Simply reflect on how much you gain by helping to embed Trojans on your machine (and compromise your security), and then, how fulfilling it is to spend your weekend (or the money you pay to a tech) trying to delete them. Email tricks like this and those ridiculous Nigerian solicitations, like all con games, gather a devoted following of lambs. Seaweb -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of RA Friedman Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] WARNING about a new E-Bay identity theft scam... Yes, this is getting really bad since the "phishers" are now starting to create exact facsimiles of the real sites. I got one for Paypal recently. The link takes you to a site that looks just like Paypal. It isn't. The rule of thumb is don't log into any site unless you have chosen it via the actual URL in your browser. No legitimate site will ever send you an email asking you to log-in. Graham Newton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A WARNING if you use E-bay... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There is a new "phishing" scheme (a method of getting your confidential information for identity theft) that seems to have started in the past week. Here's how it works:- You get a message apparently from an E-bay member who asks for your comment about a seller who received money and did not deliver goods. The sender says that he was told you had done business with the person and gives a name. Here is the one I received, although they may vary the message, you get the idea of how it works. COPY OF PHISHING MESSAGE: ======================================================================= ==== Hi, I have recently had a bad transaction with an ebay member.Here are his details: Christopher Keller,3422 Avenue,New York, 10001.I sent him the payment for an item and it never arrived.Now he wont reply to my emails. He said he made transactions on ebay before and you are one of his customers. I have reported the incident to ebat and to the law authoritiesCan you help me?Do you know this person? ======================================================================= ==== END OF PHISHING MESSAGE The message gives you a button to click on to respond to the message via E-bay BUT IT DOES NOT GO TO E-bay... instead it goes to an E-bay look-alike webpage in the Ukraine where the phisher gathers your E-bay name and Password. DON'T FALL FOR IT! Instead, use your browser's "forward" feature to forward the entire message including headers to E-bay at:- [log in to unmask] They are VERY interested in shutting down these people before they do some serious damage! ... Graham Newton -- Audio Restoration by Graham Newton, http://www.audio-restoration.com World class professional services applied to tape or phonograph records for consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR's new CAMBRIDGE processes. RA Friedman, Archivist Freedman Jewish Music Archive University Of Pennsylvania Webmaster, Yiddish-American Digital Archive (Not affiliated with University of Pennsylvania) http://yiddishsong.org Restored 78s in Real Audio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com