I’m selling my car on Ebay and stated clearly that I would only accept cash so you can imagine i was a bit surprised when a guy emailed me to ask if I would accept cash (who wouldn’t). He also told me his email didn’t work so I should email him at a yahoo address… No problems so far…
I was browsing through ebay the next day and realised that this guy is sending the same question to a whole host of people.
What this guy is doing is hacking into people’s ebay accounts and sending these emails. You then send him an email in reply and a few days later you’ll get an email which looks just like an ebay email claiming that your details need to be updated. On closer inspection the link wasn’t kosher. He merely grabbing people’s account details and perhaps paypal details as well.
) , and I spend a lot of time writing security policies and procedures for companies large and small and it’s still amazing that people fall for this stuff.