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Bluefrog
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Topic: New eBay Phishing Scam Posted: 22 December 2005 at 8:40am |
Man, these scammers are getting more sophisticated.
A few days ago I got a scam eBay mail about a Sony camera. Today, I got this scammail:
This
is John with the camera. I noticed that you
picked up the money, it has been 2 days and I
haven't received the package, what's next? Are
you scamming me ? Please respond ASAP!
It looked just like a regular eBay inquiry.
Let your less savvy friends & family know just in case.
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the boss
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 12:14pm |
tell him F off!!
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 12:22pm |
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I got an eBay phishing scame the other day asking me to update my credit card details (obvious scame).
Anyway, just to have a look I clicked the link and instead of the
normal dodgy URL at the top, the scammer actually took you to a site
that opened a Java Applet that appeared to look like eBay in your
browser with the correct URL's in the fake navigation bar.
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huwnet
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 3:36pm |
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Did you hear about the javascript trick a while ago that made a new window with now toolbars and then positioned itself over the address bar so that it could mimic the URL.
I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my mail and whatever trick they use for fake URLS does not work. It opens in the real URL because of its built in phising protection
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 3:42pm |
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I've been using Thunderbird for a while, mainly due to it's built in
spam filters as I get around 400+ spam emails aday. I find the spam
filter in Thunderbird is better than ones that I have paid over $80 a
year for.
I also like it's improved security and the fact now in the new version,
it finally underlines spelling mistakes as you write them.
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huwnet
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:16pm |
-boRg- wrote:
I've been using Thunderbird for a while, mainly due to it's built in
spam filters as I get around 400+ spam emails aday. I find the spam
filter in Thunderbird is better than ones that I have paid over $80 a
year for.
I also like it's improved security and the fact now in the new version,
it finally underlines spelling mistakes as you write them.
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Indeed. The only problem I am having with Thunderbird issues is timeouts on mail accounts. First of all I though it was my spam filter delaying things. However it also happens on my non spam-filtered accounts. Opera Mail has no timeouts but I don't like opera mail  . -borg- you should try out spampal. It checks all mail on international spam blacklists before forwarding them to thunderbird. In the new 1.5 version of Thunderbird it supports spampal headers and automatically forwards that mail to the junk folder. Maybe you should give spampal a try as it is free. It has all the same features as spam assasin although I only check blacklists so that it does not block other e-mail that I may want.
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Bluefrog
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:39pm |
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I've been thinking about switching from ThunderBird to The Bat! after
hearing about a couple people losing all their email in ThunderBird. Or
maybe Pocomail... I just don't have time to compare the 2 at the moment
- Anyone here ever compared the 2?
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MadDog
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Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:50pm |
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I wish i could take the spam filters from Thunderbird and and import them into my mail server.
My mail server hardly catches spam but Thunderbird gets most of them.
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