New scam on ebay.-a warning.

Well, phishing scams are are being sent out to ebay users to "vertify their acount or face a fine." When you enter the vertify screen, then you should notice that the message is not secure (no https, just http) and part of the name is myblogsite.

Anyway I got one of these and used a program to send a tracker to the guy and guess what!? It was not ebays cgi ftp! It was a masked adress or so my program tells me. So I sent an email to ebay and to yahoo to report the guy and his contact info (hacked by me).

5 minutes of work later I avoided a scam and am typing this here just so everybody here knows in case they get one of these. Ebay never askes for a action from you without sending a message to your ebay mailbox first before your real email.

-Postal

wait howd u get his contact info again :\ ?

wow my gmail placed that email into my spam box

To find spammer:
1.You get the email into a email client.
2.Then click view source to unmask the real sending link.
3.Then you look up the the place of the 12.12.123.233 (this is an example) by using this nifty site or others http://www.dnsstuff.com/

(note: I used a program to generate a automatically opening tracker and inserted through outlook into the email source then sent the guy an email. I just found this DSN site just now.)

4. Have some fun by sending a message that says you told the police. i had to send hima message anyway so it served a double purpose

5. Forward the original email, the source code of the email, the ip of spammers computer (not middleman hosting site), and location of spammer. Send it to whatever authorities you can think of.
(note 2: I think the mods of most sites have thier own ISP finding tools and probably know all of this stuff)
edit: added most important step:Report

postaldudeleo said:

To find spammer:
1.You get the email into a email client.
2.Then click view source to unmask the real sending link.
3.Then you look up the the place of the 12.12.123.233 (this is an example) by using this nifty site or others http://www.dnsstuff.com/

(note: I used a program to generate a automatically opening tracker and inserted through outlook into the email source then sent the guy an email. I just found this DSN site just now.)

4. Have some fun by sending a message that says you told the police. i had to send hima message anyway so it served a double purpose

(note 2: I think the mods of most sites have thier own ISP finding tools and probably know all of this stuff)

Click to expand...

qft

Reports of scam emails are pretty much useless unless all the headers of the email are forwarded WITH THE ORIGINAL EMAIL - only then do the authorities have a chance of tracing the message origin. The site that gets linked to may become 404'd pretty quickly but this doesn't stop the zombie spam machines churning the messages out.

Yeah, that why you have to go the 3rd step and use the site i posted or the like to trace the spammers ip address and location, the middleman site can be ignored..

Oh and I forgot to add the actual reporting step. i'll edit it now.

Yeah I get these emails from time to time. I didn't know how to trace them though. Thanks for the info.

when in doubt, enter false info most of the time you will still "log in" the site with usually a big warm "thank you"...I love feeding false info to thoses ppl...I do it as oftem as possible