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hobbit:
I get emails from ebay now and again, saying my account is suspended please go to url address, and verify you details.

I always ignore these, as I have found after talking to ebay they are fraudulant, the only time i woould contact ebay, through their usual address would be if they actually froze my account, which has never happened

thermidorthelobster:
The phishers are getting better, though.  I had an eBay mail this morning which was quite convincing.  Instead of the usual broken English and dodgy links, it did look exactly how it would have looked if eBay had sent it.  Only, they wouldn't have sent it.

Out of interest (I'm using a Mac, so I'm pretty impervious to malware) I clicked the link...  And sure enough, although it looks like a pucker link, it goes to a numerical IP address.  I didn't investigate further...

However, for anybody without a healthy dose of paranoia, it's easy to see how you could be caught out.

David

muddyweb:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---Out of interest (I'm using a Mac, so I'm pretty impervious to malware) I clicked the link...  And sure enough, although it looks like a pucker link, it goes to a numerical IP address.  I didn't investigate further...
--- End quote ---


Just make sure you have all your patches and updates installed... there have been a stream of browser vulnerabilties lately on *all* operating systems (these include Firefox, IE, Safari, Mozilla, etc. etc.)

If your browser isn't up to date, or is set up wrong, even a link such as the one you describe above can be made to look right in the browser once it has been clicked.  

The only safe solution is to type web addresses in manually if you are not 100% sure of their origin.

lee celtic:
:D  :D  :D  :D  :D  bad song made good :wink:

far better than the original . =D>

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