[lace-chat] eBay sellers beware
This is only relevant to those of you who sell on eBay. There's a new scam email (been around for a week or so) purporting to be from eBay Customer Support, and I've just received one. The subject is: NOTICE eBay Obligatory Verifying - Invalid User Information The message starts: "Dear Ebay user, We regret to inform you that your home phone number had an error on Ebay Inc. databases. We use your phone number for your identification purpose only. If the requested information is not provided to us then we will regret to inform you that your account will be suspended from our database until required information is provided. * Invalid User Information - Our records show that there are some discrepancies with the information that you registered with on our service. Due to this violation your account will be suspended indefinitely from the site until valid information can be provided.* " There's a link to a web site on which they ask for your name address, telephone number, social security number, bank name, address, account number, mother's maiden name, credit card details including the security number on the back, and passwords - in fact everything except your bra size. Ebay and Paypal don't ever ask for this information after you've registered with them If something has changed, you do it yourself through the appropriate ebay or Paypal page, not in response to an email rom them. Exposing the headers shows that this particular email originates in Korea. I've sent mine to eBay. I've looked at the eBay chatboard, and the writers there seem to think that addresses of sellers are being obtained by asking the seller a question. Some say that they know this because they keep a separate address for answering questions, and this is the address the scam email has been sent to. The say they only reveal their main address to the winning bidder. On poor person said they'd fallen for it and sent all his/her details. The only thing they can do now is close their bank account and credit card accounts, and open new ones. The scammers will still have their address, phone number and social security number though. If you're an eBay seller and get a suspicious email send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with all the headers showing. Whatever you do, don't answer it and don't give them your details. There's also another scam/spam email which says the person's offering laptops at knockdown prices to people he's dealt with some time in the past before he puts them up for sale on ebay. This is another scam. Don't know the purpose of it, but it's not a genuine offer. Again from eBay chatboard, several people have had this email but from a different person and at various email addresses. I received one of these as well, and didn't realise it was a scam, but didn't respond as I've only recently bought a laptop. Could be just a method of establishing live email addresses. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] FLLG October Lace Days
I am really sorry to post to both lists but I need to make a correction to the mailing that went out for the Finger Lakes Lace Guild October Lace Day Event. The address to mail your registration has been changed. Please mail to: Kathy Kauffman 734 Oak Street Winnetka, IL 60093 Again sorry for the double post. Deborah Redman Finger Lakes Lace Guild To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Biggins back.
Hi all, we came back from Spain earlier today and are now open for business. Hope you all had a good June, KEEP LACING, VIVIENNE, BIGGINS To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief
>...but mice? Since when did they like nice shinies? The indigenous rat in North America is the wood rat, sometimes know as the Pack Rat. It does collect shiny things, and sometimes exchanges one it is carrying for a better one it finds. The skinny tail common rat is an immigrant that came over on the first ships, and all subsequent ones. The wood rat is brown, a little larger than an eastern chipmonk and has a bushy tail. Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] garlic festival
Clay wrote >And there is another garlic festival in Virginia . >... Virginia wines are also featured, and with the >admission, adults receive a wine glass which is used for the >tastings. I've quite a collection of the glasses now! This festival is held in a vineyard and winery in my county. It features "elephant garlic" also. We used to demonstrate lace there, but in recent years it coincided with our NC regional Lace Day. Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Angela's Amazing Mountain Adventure - 1
This has nothing to do with Lace. Jeri did ask whether I wore any lace on my trip. The answer is yes, on my night-dress but since nobody saw it, it does not count! However, there are other textiles - embroidery, weaving, braids to mention only a few. The tour was fraught with difficulties from the start. My son had first visited the remote Kalash valleys in the North west of Pakistan in 1999. He stayed only one night in the village, together with other tour companions on a jeep-trek of the Karakoram mountains. Being well trained, he managed to purchase for me a cowrie-shell decorated top head-dress (Kupas) and also the under beaded head-dress (Shu-shut) together with an embroidered dress, a woven sash, three bead bracelets and several strings of necklaces. At that time, photography of the women of the tribe was not allowed. So he said to the Chief's son (having paid the asking price in dollars without question) How will my mother know how the head-dress is worn, can I take a photo of the back view? So he was taken into the village to the Chief's house and allowed to photograph the Chief's wife and sister and the children, back and front views. Two years later in 2001, he returned to the valley, this time not as part of a tour group, but on his own in a Jeep with the Guide, a driver and a cook. This time he was welcomed and stayed longer in the village, taking many photographs, not only of the dance festival, but also the village people. He said he would bring his mother to visit them the following year. I thought this a wonderful idea. However, it was not to be, the Afghan war precluded all travel in that area, as it is so near to the Afghan border, and special permission is needed at any time from the Police station in Chittral. In 2002 we started to make plans for 2003, when my son intended to visit Afghanistan and I would join him in neighbouring Pakistan. Once again the threat of war intervened. Would Iraq be invaded, would the war prevent us from going? Never did anyone listen to and read the world news so avidly. part 2. What happened next. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: A sad funny
I'm keeping the title with which the joke came to me. It came from a lady, born and bread upper class Alabama, now in her mid seventies (I have some very unususal friends ), so the title, coming from her, is a bit more poignant. I can't help hoping though -- surely, in nearly 40 yrs, things have changed? From: B.B. In 1964, a US Navy cruiser put into port in Mobile, Alabama for a week's R&R. The first evening, the Captain was more than a little surprised to receive the following letter from the wife of a very wealthy plantation owner and industrialist: Dear Captain: Thursday will be my daughter Susan's debutante ball. I would like you to send four well-mannered, handsome, unmarried officers. They should arrive at 8p.m. sharp, prepared for an evening of polite Southern conversation and dancing with lovely young ladies. PS: No Jews. Sure enough, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, the lady followed her butler to answer a rap at the door which was opened by the butler. She found in dress uniform, four handsome, exquisitely mannered and smiling African American naval officers. Her lower jaw hit the floor, but pulling herself together she stammered, "There must be some mistake." "Madam," said the first officer, "Captain Cohen doesn't make mistakes." - Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
