Humorous e-Bay scam e-mail

[WDWHound]

My mom recieves a great many scam e-mails that claim to be from e-Bay. She forwards them all to me so that I can verify if they are a scam or not (they have all been scams so far). Anyway, the most recent scam attempt was really quite well done. The e-mail looked official and all the e-bay graphics were there, but as soon as I started to read it, I burst out laughing. You see, there was one little problem. The first line of the e-mail read:

"You (or someone else) entered three times wrong the password to log in with your eBay ID. "

Three times wrong the password? Perhaps he (or someone else) should have run one time right the grammar checker!?

The guy was actually kind of clever. He stated in the e-mail that you should never reveal your password to anyone, so, in order to avoid having to reveal a password, Mom simply needed to type in her Social Security Number, checking account number, bank routing number, bank name and credit card number. ? Yeah, right. Please, if you're going to attempt to con my mother, you could at least do so using proper english . Luckily, she knew better than to respond.

PS. I know most of you already know this, but I am going to repeat it anyway. Any e-mail that asks for your credit card number, social security number, checking account number or a user ID and password should be considered a scam. Ligitimate companies will NEVER do this.

 

[Loubon]

Besides the obvious ways of telling they are scams I usually like to type some gibberish into the fields and then submit. They quickly reply back with "Thank you, your information is being updated".

Hmm, and my password isn't even Mickey Mouse!