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Here is the latest Spoof. It comes in the form of Ask A Seller A Question.
Look carefully at any Ask the seller a question form mine looked like this
Dear carberry*xxx.net,
Hi carrie, Thanks for the e-mail. I have made payment through PayPal & I am sure that PayPal has notified you of this fact. Thankyou for your very efficient and quick service & for the awesome items that you owe for sale. Best wishes, mark
The Email address is correct but I'm not Carrie . If you put your mouse cursor over the respond button or right click on coopy link you will get something like this http://66.188.0.39:23xx/ViewItemnumb...gory61092.html
The real link for an Ebay question looks like this http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI...Question_Email
This was the response I got from Ebay after sending to spoof*ebay.com
Hello,
Thank you for writing to eBay regarding the email you received.
We reviewed your report and found that although the message you received
was made to appear as if it had been sent by an eBay user, it was not.
It appears that this email may also contain a keystroke virus
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Thanks for the heads up. I have had some e-mails in the "ask the seller a question" mistakenly opened one up once and it released a trojan. I now check the item number to see if it matches anything of mine before even opening the e-mail up. Does it ever end? *sigh*
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I really don't like the ASAQ thing. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by carberry
It appears that this email may also contain a keystroke virus
Just to be on the safe side, and especially if your Anti-Virus software hasn't been updated recently (that means weekly), ANYONE who has received an email like this needs to CHECK!
If there was a keystroke virus in that email, your AV should have sounded the alarm. If you think there's any chance at all that it is not working, run an online check. I use Housecall but there are several others.
And should any AV routine find a keystroke virus, change your Passwords to any site you used since receiving the virus. It's the passwords they're after!
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If you open My Computer, click on the box that reads folder options. Click on file types. search for VB Script Script file & delete it. This will keep out some of the stuff that happens automatically when an e-mail is opened. Every little bit helps. These links don't have to be clicked on, just the e-mail opened. Ditto about making sure you update your virus definitions! That's the most important of all.