From: Andy Mulhearn (unxmully_at_mac.com)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 01:32:33 PST
On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 23:14 Europe/London, Frank Gruendel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks a lot to everyone who has enlightened me regarding spoof
> ebay mails. I forwarded what I received to spoof_at_ebay.com, fully
> expecting not to hear anything of them as usual. I'm still astonished
> how a url like blabla.ebay.com can be not an ebay url. I have always
> been under the impression that what is before ".com" is a unique
> idendifier that can't be hijacked.
>
Just in case it needs reiterating, I got two overnight - one claiming
to be from the Halifax and the other from Barclays - both of which
would appear to be the same kind of thing.
Andy
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