New eBay Phishing Scam
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Topic: New eBay Phishing Scam
Posted By: Bluefrog
Subject: New eBay Phishing Scam
Date Posted: 22 December 2005 at 8:40am
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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. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 22 December 2005 at 12:14pm
tell him F off!! 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date 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 |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:16pm
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 http://www.spampal.org/ - 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. |
-boRg- wrote:Posted By: Bluefrog
Date 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? ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: MadDog
Date 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. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 11:07am
I not lost any yet and have over 10,000 emails stotred in Thunderbird. Just incase anything bad happens though I regulay backup the Thunderbird folder that stores mail and preferences. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 12:04pm
I have heard some good things about The Bat! but I would never pay for it. I got five (legal!) licenses of Outlook 2003 because if you order a SBS server from Microsoft then for some reason they give you a full version of Outlook and not a trial. But I don't use Outlook anyway. I use IMAP for my main mail account anyway so it does not matter if Thunderbird crashes. For me the last time it crashed it just created another profile and left the old one intact
I thought you used spamassasin on your mail servers? Have you enabled any blacklists? I use Spamhaus blacklist with spampal and so far it hasnt given me a false positive |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 24 December 2005 at 4:23am
I'm a Chartered Member at DonationCoder.com, and they have a 50% discount for members there - so it's not a big deal to pay for it.
I have to use Outlook at work (but I don't). It's the worst f**king piece of sh*t ever written. I don't understand why anti-virus programs don't identify it as malware.  It takes far too long to read a message in Outlook - anything above 0.5 seconds is nuts. It often takes me more than 20 seconds to load & display 1 email. And the *.msg format? WTF??? It's a useless piece of junk. Email should be *.eml and nothing else. There's absolutely no way in Hell that I could possibly express how much I absolutely loathe that program. Anyways, Merry Christmas, and if anyone gives you an Outlook license, stab them in the face because they're evil! ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |