View Single Post
  #11   Report Post  
posted to rec.boats
basskisser basskisser is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,978
Default Something rotten in the state of eBay...

On Jun 7, 1:37 am, "Mike" wrote:
It's called "phishing". Millions of these things are sent to email


addresses generated by computers. Sometimes they are valid address, most
times not.

We all know what it is... well, most of us do anyway. In case you
misunderstood, the OP was writing about how he hadn't been to the ebay site
in over a year, then he did... once, and immediately started receiving these
emails. His point was, that perhaps ebay is doing something fishy (pun
intended), in allowing his email address leaked to the phishers once he
logged on to the site. Sounds phishy to me. Possibly a coincidence as
well... who knows.

--Mike



We all know this, well, most of us do anyway.