Archive for April, 2009

Scamming eBay Buyer Exposed

Wow.. This is a great Video!

eBay sure loves these scamming buyers!

Or Have Scammers Found A Drafty PP Back Door?

On 04/21/2009 I received the below email from PayPal. It was sent at 11:32 PM after I was sound asleep the night before. As usual I pulled the headers up – and everything about the message pointed right back to PayPal as the sender. As a matter of habit I forwarded the message to spoof@paypal.com along with the headers. I also validated the phone number via a Google Search and it traced back to PayPal too.


Several hours later I got a reply back from spoof-review@paypal.com saying the message was not sent by PayPal and it links to a FAKE WEBSITE! Scratching my head in disbelief.


I had not clicked the link before – but the curiosity was getting the best of me, so I ran CCleaner on my system deleting all my cookies, cache, etc, then clicked the link. It brought up a secure page on paypal.com saying the link had expired. There was another option to confirm my identity at the bottom of that page.


I selected email and then clicked continue. The page reloaded saying i should receive an email at blank – but never received one. I did a view source of the page and everything suggests I was on the official PayPal website. Also note the https secure notifications in all the website screen shots showing I was on secure PayPal pages.


So my question is – did a scammer try to hack my PayPal Account? Or have Scammers found another way into PayPal? Though I don’t see anything fraudulent in any of the pages displayed. I’m thinking PayPal is simply flagging their own emails as fraudulent. Could they be using delayed auto-responders on messages sent to spoof@paypal.com?

Please CLICK HERE To See All The Screen Shots.

Wow.. I wonder what else being sold on eBay is SO HOT it will burn your hands to touch?

First it was the Stairway-To-The-Stars eFence Then a Mother & Son Stealing Segate Hard DrivesThen the DR Phil Show eFence – Now it’s some DoDo stealing Xerox ink from his employer – and selling it on eBay.

Here are a few more screen shots – Including one of all the items eBay removed.

I wonder who will be next to make the public spotlight of eFences?