Comments on: Nasty Ebay “About Me” Phish http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Wed, 23 May 2012 18:19:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-39795 Kelson Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:19:48 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-39795 That certainly qualifies as a loony theory... That certainly qualifies as a loony theory…

]]> By: julia http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-39793 julia Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:43:10 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-39793 Interesting. I often see these things as being connected to the lunar Eclipse. It all depends on the Eclipse if it will effect phishing or not. An eclipse connected to Neptune is usually a sign that phising will be rampant. julia Interesting. I often see these things as being connected to the lunar Eclipse. It all depends on the Eclipse if it will effect phishing or not. An eclipse connected to Neptune is usually a sign that phising will be rampant.
julia

]]> By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18286 Kelson Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:45:32 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18286 Your video clip is all about hacking into a database to retrieve account data, not about using social engineering and user-supplied content on eBay's site to trick people into handing their login info to the wrong site. Furthermore, all the dates I saw were from this month. So how, exactly, is this "quite an old scam?" The solution for <em>this</em> scam is simple: Just as MySpace did last fall, eBay should disallow posting of password-type input fields on user-supplied content. Your video clip is all about hacking into a database to retrieve account data, not about using social engineering and user-supplied content on eBay’s site to trick people into handing their login info to the wrong site. Furthermore, all the dates I saw were from this month. So how, exactly, is this “quite an old scam?”

The solution for this scam is simple: Just as MySpace did last fall, eBay should disallow posting of password-type input fields on user-supplied content.

]]> By: Firemeg http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18273 Firemeg Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:38:08 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18273 This is quite an old scam. People SHOULD know about it by now. Have you read up on the Vladuz hacker related scams? Perhaps you should. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5b6wdLfaHE This is quite an old scam. People SHOULD know about it by now. Have you read up on the Vladuz hacker related scams? Perhaps you should.

]]> By: West http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18241 West Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:59:17 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18241 re: <i>“Pleas rspond with all you personl informtion”</i> That really cracked me up. re: “Pleas rspond with all you personl informtion”

That really cracked me up.

]]> By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18216 Kelson Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:14:30 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18216 I remember some discussion of phishing in the middle of last year, and there were people ranting about "Who falls for this? It's so obvious!" I tried to explain that it <em>isn't</em> always obvious anymore. It's a lot more sophisticated than the badly-spelled, text-only, "Pleas rspond with all you personl informtion" messages with a link to a raw IP address that was the norm two or three years ago. I've seen some really clever phishes, some sent to me, some shown to me, and some landing in the spamtraps, but this has got to be the sneakiest one I've seen in a long time. Of course, the danger is still there with phone and mail scams. Even before I had a credit card, I was taught to give the number out only if I had called a company, not if they had called me. It's just so much easier to send this garbage out via email. I remember some discussion of phishing in the middle of last year, and there were people ranting about “Who falls for this? It’s so obvious!” I tried to explain that it isn’t always obvious anymore. It’s a lot more sophisticated than the badly-spelled, text-only, “Pleas rspond with all you personl informtion” messages with a link to a raw IP address that was the norm two or three years ago.

I’ve seen some really clever phishes, some sent to me, some shown to me, and some landing in the spamtraps, but this has got to be the sneakiest one I’ve seen in a long time.

Of course, the danger is still there with phone and mail scams. Even before I had a credit card, I was taught to give the number out only if I had called a company, not if they had called me. It’s just so much easier to send this garbage out via email.

]]> By: West http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/02/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18213 West Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:38:43 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/02/27/ebay-aboutme-phish/#comment-18213 It's stuff like this that keeps certain technophobes away from this stuff. ...and why I'm less hesitant than some to call them all "idiots" for being fooled by this or that cyber trick. It’s stuff like this that keeps certain technophobes away from this stuff.

…and why I’m less hesitant than some to call them all “idiots” for being fooled by this or that cyber trick.

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