password theft

try this:
Click me

What?

rsmiller40

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Originally posted by rsmiller40:
What?

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Doesn't "Click me" (position your cursor on "Click me") bring up other posts about "spoofs"?

LOL, Rick, I don't know..I thought you were telling me to tell them that! It's been a longggg day.

rsmiller40

Thanks, Rick. This seems to be a new breed of spoofs. I did forward them to ebay. I just have gotten so many lately. The last one was a hoot! They claimed yahoo and ebay had merged and they needed both password.

rsmiller40

Ha! Ha! Ha!

You could tell a seller -"You don't like the feedback I left for you? well, Click Me"
I read your exchange and started laughing out loud!
Too funny!

Remember now Rick, we have to keep this forum clean.

Henceforth, in this Forum "Click Me" will be a synonym for a spoof.

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Originally posted by Rick:
try this:
Click me

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Now that I look at it, that was pretty vague.

It was pretty funny!

What??

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Hey, Rick, I knew what it meant. It might be confusing to newcomers, but not to those who've been around for a while. But in the future maybe you could consider a line like "Click X on this". Just a suggestion.

Please don't take offense, Rick. I was just teasing.
You were being helpful.
I was really laughing at rsmiller40's reaction.
Too funny.

It takes a lot more then that to offend me - A LOT. Just a good, and funny, lesson on how something that seems obvious to one person, can easily be interpreted as something else by another.

So - there's "scam", "spam" and now "spoof". What's next? Those words are a lot more polite then what I call them, but I won't go into details. I think "politics" is derived from "polite". Someone(s) must have been given the assignment to come up with the phrase "spoof emails".

P.S. Mornings are getting pretty lively on this forum.

Early Mornings!!

<----DUh!!

rsmiller40

rsmiller40 -You're making me laugh all over again!
This is all in good spirit, I hope you know.
bjt

Yes, of course . Well, Steve, this spoof name came straight from Ebay headquarters!

rsmiller40

Bjt... I think some good spirits might relax my brain right about now!

rsmiller40

My Granddad used to say, "Soak your troubles internally. It don't help, but you don't care either."

Steve, I am truly RONFLMAO!!

rsmiller40

My Granddad was a genuine character, and the best liar in Jefferson County, WV. Nothing malicious, you understand, but he was a barber and folks would come from 20 miles around to sit in his little shop above a small-town grocery store and listen to him spin off whoppers as he clipped hair.

I resurrected this thread because I received a different type of fraudulent e-mail today. This one gave the usual "We believe someone may have tried to use your account" BS, but instead of asking the recipient to click on a link or type in an eBay password, this one asks him to send the same info via fax to a San Jose, CA number!

Wow! That is a new twist, Chatter!!