Posted by
Paul Worlton on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:38:32 PM
Sorry to do two tech posts right in a row, but I received an email scam that was too good to pass up commenting on. It isn't all that unusual or anything, but once again I find myself surpised at the bold-faced attempt to scam money. I won't go into detail here, but suffice to say I received an email telling me "My eBay account could be cancelled!" if I didn't verify my account information.
But not even Outlook was fooled since it ended up in my Junk Mail box where I usually delete things right away. But then it occurred to me that not everyone has a Junk Mail box, and those that do might not have them set up to block these emails. So with that in mind, please read the following article on eBay (note the actual eBay domain name, ensuring that this is not a spoof):
http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/spoof-email.htmlConsider this article a good way to handle any email spoof, including those *supposedly from* other sites.