Let me know if anything happens...

Paul Carmichael says...

Is it some of this soup?:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=72175&item=
3763784443&rd=1

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Are you eating your soup by the pool?

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

.... because I dutifully download all the headers daily, and all I see is
an endless stream of urls - mostly links to things on ebay.

We need uk.rec.anythingbutfuckingebayplease.

I'll go and eat my soup now.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

About 30 feet away from it. And I just checked my email. Spam from
fucking ebay, no less. I know everyone here loves ebay, but any firm
that spams me can shove its head up its own fucking arse.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Much more likely to be phishing attacks. Trust me (tm). I don't think
I've *ever* had spam from Ebay.

 

I just went to their website and changed the dafault account settings
from "I'd love to reveive spam" to "I don't want any".

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

You wanna try not ticking the ****-off-with-your-spam box when you first
sign up. A deluge it is. Guaranteed you won't wait five minutes before
firing up your account preferences for a quick overhaul. And Amazon
they are the same.

Other than that I agree.

 

Paul Carmichael wrote

Sort of what I have suggested in another post what I posted before I
even read your one.

The one thing that makes the phishing attacks easier to identify for me
is that they don't come to the right email addies. They always end up
in me main mailbox and not the subsidiary ones where routine stuff from
ebay and shite should land.

 

The one thing that makes the phishing attacks easier to identify for me
is that they look well fucking dodgy. Either that or I've been caught
christ knows how many times and haven't yet realised!

 

That's the thing, many of them don't look dodgy at all to the unwary.

Even though I know better, I have had the odd frisson of concern when
receiving an email from Paypal telling me that my account has been
frozen. They look convincing and, if one is curious enough to follow
the link, the "Paypal" login screen[1] was identical to the real thing.

[1]No, I didn't. Curious, not (that) stupid