Ebay Phishing

[Gerard Seibert]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:08:49 -0800 "Michael C. Shultz"
<ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:

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||>On Sunday 20 March 2005 11:53 am, Bob Ababurko wrote:
||>> Gerard Seibert wrote:
||>> >On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:22:23 -0600 Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> 
||>wrote:
||>> >||>Robert Slade wrote:
||>> >||>> Hi all,
||>> >||>>
||>> >||>> Is it just me, but I've had 2 Ebay Phishing e-mails to this
||>> >||>> e-mail address that I only use for this mail list. Both mails
||>> >||>> where from Comcast users !!
||>> >||>>
||>> >||>> Rob
||>> >||>
||>> >||>Sounds like someone from Comcast is on this list AND using a
||>> >||> Windows box AND is infected.
||>> >||>
||>> >||>Shame on you
||>> >||>
||>> >||>--
||>> >||>Best regards,
||>> >||>Chris
||>> >||>
||>> >||>If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
||>> >
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||>> >Sunday, March 20, 2005 1:35:28 PM
||>> >
||>> >1) Did you actually confirm that the email originated from Comcast
||>> >2) Did you report the email to Comcast as well as spoof at ebay.com
||>> >3) Why does it have to be a Windows box? Anyone can access this
||>> > forum and harvest email addresses.
||>> >
||>> >--
||>> >Gerard Seibert
||>> >gerard-seibert at suscom.net
||>> >
||>> >They say that a dog is man's best friend. I do not believe that. How
||>> >many of your friends have you had neutered?
||>>
||>> It is most likely it is a windows box that has been copromised due to
||>> one of the slew of M$ vulnerabilities.  Some crafty programmer has
||>> turned this box into a zombie and installed a mailing package or a
||>> proxy server and is sending mail from it in concert with thousands of
||>> others just like it...al behind one keyboard.
||>>
||>> -Bob
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||>
||>Just to be fair towards the OS used by common folk,  a few months ago I 
||>set up a gateway machine with FreeBSD 4.11 and made the mistake of 
||>running it on my DSL line without first setting up a firewall, shutting 
||>off sendmail and unused ports. (due to lazyness impatience on my part)  
||>
||>It took only a few hours for someone to find the open relay and use it!
||>I didn't even know until Verizon sent me an email saying I was a  bad 
||>boy and they were shutting off my email access for 24 hours, which they 
||>did!  Bottom line is it can happen to anyone.
||>
||>-Mike


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Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:17:20 PM

Thanks Mike, that is exactly my point. Far to many individuals blame
Microsoft for every conceivable thing that happens without first fully
investigating the actual event. There is a very good chance that
Microsoft software may be at the heart of this matter; there is also a
change that O.J. Simpson is innocent, but we do not really have to go
there. For all we know, these addresses could be harvested by an
individual using a MAC.

The point is that as soon as someone starts using an OS other than
Microsoft, they are lulled into a totally false sense of security, which
anyone with any real knowledge knows is simply BS.

If someone like yourself can make a mistake like you described, think
how easy it is for a novice to accomplish the same feat. Worse yet, they
will not even be aware that they have compromised either their own or
some others security because of their incompetence.

--
Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at suscom.net

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