[153730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EBAY and AMAZON
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Irvine)
Mon Jun 11 14:38:00 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAPv4CP8tYMJ-bsr+RGiWniT0DGopQ-wcE=5t70sd1N1rgDrKCg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:37:46 -0700
From: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com>
To: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yup. They hope that the message contents are a coincidence and scare
you into seeing (i.e. clicking on..) what's it's about.
This happened to me a few years ago where I changed my ebay password,
and about 30 minutes later got a phishing email that my password
change failed. So I clicked the link and re-did it. As soon as I
clicked on the submit button I noticed that the URl I was forwarded to
was to some server in Russia. /facepalm.
I went and sheepishly changed my ebay password AGAIN that very moment,
with a bit of awe towards the clever con I had fallen into. Luckily I
noticed. But how many others didn't?
-B
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's a troll, trying to shock you into clicking on something.
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Nick Olsen <nick@flhsi.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it might just be coincidence. I've gotten about 10 of them and
>> haven't been to ebay or amazon in months.
>> Most of them have been for >60 dollar books.
>>
>> Nick Olsen
>> Network Operations (855) FLSPEED =A0x106
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> =A0From: "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:28 PM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: EBAY and AMAZON
>>
>> I have received bogus emails from both of the above on Friday.
>>
>> These look like I bought something that in both cases I did not buy.
>> The EBAY was a golf club for $887 and the Amazon was a novel for $82,
>> far more than I would have spent on either.
>>
>> I think I looked at the novel on Amazon and I remember the golf club
>> came up on a search with something else on Ebay.
>>
>> How this information could get to someone spoofing is a little
>> disconcerting.
>>
>> I have changed EBAY and Paypal Passwords as instructed.
>>
>> Ralph Brandt
>> Communications Engineer
>> HP Enterprise Services
>> Telephone +1 717.506.0802
>> FAX +1 717.506.4358
>> Email Ralph.Brandt@pateam.com
>> 5095 Ritter Rd
>> Mechanicsburg PA 17055
>>
>>
>>
