To: publana
This doesn't quite pass the smell test.
From whence cometh your info?
There are almost as many scam emails for eBay and/or PayPal as there are Nigerians.
Did this "Alert" come via an email?
21 posted on
09/26/2007 7:41:22 AM PDT by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: N. Theknow
From whence cometh your info?
Publana posted the address from the ebay forum. There are over a thousand replies, none that I saw said it was phony. The early posts are from numerous people frsytrated because ebay did not pull the page immediately.
29 posted on
09/26/2007 7:48:27 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
((Not a newbie, just wanted a new screen name))
To: N. Theknow
To: N. Theknow
His info came from
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000565444&start=0. I checked it out and it looks to be a legitimate scare. However, it's possible that this was more of an attack on ebay's credibility than on its users. Just a suspicion, but it is possible that somebody did, in fact, hack a bunch of ebay user names, and then post them with phoney cc info to give the appearance that ebay had been completely hacked, when only some account userid's had been taken. I'll read the forum some more to see if anybody can actually confirm that THEIR cc info was actually correctly listed in the hack.
To: N. Theknow
It happened. The main suspect is Vladuz, a well known cracker of Eastern European origin (Russian, Romanian).
Ebay is making phone calls to the affected ID’s, but at this time there is no evidence that the credit information was accurate or valid. The cracker looks to have been trying to create negative publicity and anxiety in the user base. Great way to start the “sell” season.
Ebay claims it was not hacked, but that the information came from phished accounts.
It was announced in the obscure eBay Chatter (eBay usually releases bad news this way) and also discussed in the AuctionBytes blog and several private forums for professional ebay sellers.
Ebay shut down the Trust and Safety forum and scrubbed references to it from many of the other ebay forums they host, as per their usual sweep it under the rug and hope it goes away SOP.
39 posted on
09/26/2007 7:59:41 AM PDT by
Valpal1
("I know the fittest have not survived when I watch Congress on CSPAN.")
To: N. Theknow
No, it didn’t come via email. It came from an eBay discussion board (did the link not work?) where users sat and watched the information being posted.
45 posted on
09/26/2007 8:13:41 AM PDT by
publana
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