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"Chris S" wrote in message =
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Yes. The misspellings are a giveaway--one of the major newspapers
reported on this scam, and commented on the irony that such a clever
ploy would be riddled with bad spelling and grammar. For the eBay
scam, you can forward the e-mail to and ask eBay to
authenticate it. Of maybe six I've forwarded, all have come back as
spoofs.
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I've gotten similar e-mails from PayPal imposters, but PayPal doesn't
seem to have as simple a method to authenticate as their parent
company, eBay. There's purportedly a PayPal web page that permits
reporting, but at the time I last tried to use it, it led to a
circular series of links that yielded nothing but frustration.
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--Chris S
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bassin (~AZ Rider~) wrote:
I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be =
lacking
in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the =
un-visited
link they sent along just in case.
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bogus???
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