05-02-2002, 02:10 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Warning: Ongoing eBay fraud
I just received an email from someone using the email [email protected] as sender. Do not trust the email. Don't follow the instructions, don't give away your bank account details. The email starts:
"Dear eBay member!
Your information in our eBay file, was marked (flagged) as incorrect and/or (fraudulent). To avoid any inconvenience concerning an interruption of your service membership, in future. Please take just a moment and update your eBay billing file. Remember to "doublecheck" all the fields for any possible mistakes."
The email then contains the a URL with an eBay "look alike" page, that is definately not the real deal. On the page, the user is asked to fill in bank account details. I am not too good at finding out what ISP runs a specific site, so I will give you the URL here. I won't link to it in case anyone accidentally clicks the link and starts reading the text. Again: do not follow these instructions! Here is the URL: 64.177.3.234
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05-02-2002, 02:46 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 5
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Looks like they got caught, the site is down.
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05-02-2002, 02:56 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 27
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Geektools....
http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
Its your friend. I'm more supprised it was a ISP in the USA.
Alabanza, Inc. (NETBLK-ALABANZA-BALT-4)
8309 Tinsley Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21244
US
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05-02-2002, 03:07 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 114
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From: http://www.arin.net/
Alabanza, Inc. (NETBLK-ALABANZA-BALT-4)
8309 Tinsley Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21244
US
Netname: ALABANZA-BALT-4
Netblock: 64.176.0.0 - 64.177.255.255
Maintainer: ALAB
Coordinator:
Cunningham, Thomas (TC12-ARIN) [email protected]
410-779-1400
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS.ALABANZA.COM 209.239.47.252
NS2.ALABANZA.COM 209.239.47.201
ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
Record last updated on 06-Oct-2000.
Database last updated on 1-May-2002 19:59:42 EDT.
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05-02-2002, 03:08 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 114
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Note: be sure to forward a copy of the spam email to [email protected]
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05-02-2002, 03:41 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Thanks!
I forwarded the mail!
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05-02-2002, 04:00 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 27
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But thats just the ISP.
They might not be responsable for whole mess. Thats like saying pocketpctoughts is resposable for spam, when someone harvests the site.
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05-02-2002, 04:41 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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But thats just the ISP.
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Originally Posted by bargle
They might not be responsable for whole mess. Thats like saying pocketpctoughts is resposable for spam, when someone harvests the site.
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You absolved us of all responsibility when you signed up though. :wink: :lol:
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05-02-2002, 05:49 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 27
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But thats just the ISP.
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
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Originally Posted by bargle
They might not be responsable for whole mess. Thats like saying pocketpctoughts is resposable for spam, when someone harvests the site.
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You absolved us of all responsibility when you signed up though. :wink: :lol: |
More likely than anything the con artist used a stolden CC and the ISP is inocent.
And for as EUA, EULA's have been contested in court before :twisted:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23073.html
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05-02-2002, 06:33 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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But thats just the ISP.
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Originally Posted by bargle
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Interesting. Do you realize in one way you are prohibited from selling your Pocket PC 2002 device? You get Outlook XP with it and it activates to your PC. If you sell your Pocket PC 2002, you cannot also let them have Outlook XP since the CD would be worthless to them. So they have to go buy a $100 copy of Outlook to sync with. :evil:
I can understand not being able to sell Office or Windows, but in this case I don't think the Outlook team thought it all the way through when their product got bundled with Pocket PC.
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