Dear Prodiggers. RIchard clearly stated that his post is for information purposes ONLY.
Many colleagues using E-bay in some of their commercial transactions may benefit from this warning, and that is the sole reason to let it go. No responses online to this message are allowed , so stay clear and away from discussing web issues here. Thanks for your cooperation . Regards Jorge Parra On Duty ProDig ListMum On 26/8/04 9:23 AM, Richard Kenward wrote > This is posted with the blessing of the duty list mum...thanks Jorge. > > Dear All > > This is for information only. Many will be used to getting those > emails from banks etc. asking for details they have no right to ask for, > but what I got last night purporting to be from ebay was very convincing > indeed for various reasons. Use the link and you seemed to be on a real > ebay page...even the address seemed to check out OK with ebay ....but > the information wanted was a little too intrusive..... I smelt a rat! > > Having emailed ebay and found it was a very clever "spoof", I was > interested in their download able tool bar for browsers. > http://pages.ebay.co.uk/education/spooftutorial/ When loaded, if you > click onto a page that is not an OK ebay site then you are warned. It > also has some nice facilities for quickly accessing various areas of > ebay quickly. It certainly works well on IE (PC) and I suspect other > browsers. > > Cheers > > Richard =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
