Best piece of advice! No kidding..:D

Definately. i like the ones I get from Amazon & united states centrel bank etc saying I have to update my details; I dont even have an account with any of them- makes me laugh, it really does.

I was almost scammed as well...I got a e-mail the other day from a "e-bay seller" that said I had expressed interest in a 1gb stick of RAM for my computer and that a buyer had backed out and I could get it...this happened right after I got the mail and got my RAM in...At that point I knew it was a scam, so I ignored it. The next day (yesterday) I got an e-mail from him saying he was in Italy for his sisters wedding and the item was ready to ship, I just had to give him my info...NOT GONNA HAPPEN. He even tried to assure me it was gonna go through e-bay and follow the e-bay policy and all. I knew it BS because he said he was in Italy...Nothing against Italians, but thats where alot of the scams come from, mainly because, if I was informed correctly, the US doesn't expedite criminals from Italy, so I couldn't do a damn thing about it. Now by this time I had said stop sending me e-mails trying to scam me 2 times, but today I get a second chance offer from e-bay. The e-mail looked legit, but I knew it was BS since when I clicked the link to the auction, it said: http://www.ebay.com:80/wsyadayada. Now the :80 was a dead give away for me, but some it might not be. Don't let this kinda thing happen to you guys. I can easily see how somebody would be fooled by this.

LOL. When I read "the US doesn't expedite criminals from Italy", I just had to laugh. I know you meant "extradite", but I can just imagine the US hurrying criminals from Italy. Sorry, it must just have been one of things that struck me funny.

BTW, the ":80" just means port 80, which is the http protocol. The emailer probably put that in there so any email program would know it's an http link. I would be very cautious of subdomains - something like www.ebay.scam_artist.com. The ebay part looks good, but is just a subdomain of "scam-artist.com". Or, you hover over a link, and only an IP address appears in the status bar. Or, a javascript pseudo link call. All of these methods are commonly used.

I dunno. You would just have to see the e-mail I guess. It makes no sense whatso ever since I didn't "bid" on it and lose the auction like the e-mail said. I used Buy It Now...And yes, I meant extradite...I haven't slept much lately...:025: I'll try and get a screenshot of the e-mail. It will give a good idea as to how BS it is.

Here is a screenshot of the e-mail.

Yeah, it looks good (can't see the actual link URLs), but it has to be bogus since you didn't bid on it or whatever. It's hard to trust anything in email these days. :sigh:

Besides that, if you get a second chance offer, and it says it in the e-mail, you get the same message on e-bay. I never got it...

Yeah, thats the best way of telling. If you get a message in your email inbox claiming to be from feebay or gaypal, check your ebay & paypal accounts too for the message; if its not there, then its a fake. I saw on the news the other night that scammers are increasingly evading spam filters by using pictures containing links & text- the spam filter doesnt spot them so they end up in your inbox. Crafty people these scammers but old internet hands like ourselves arent so easily fooled- newbies take heed.

Worrying development.... I just got an email claiming to be from paypal, asking me to update my details. Obviously a fake due to the total lack of effort in that they just wrote a text email, no paypal logos or anything, but the link to their spoof site is http://www.paypalgroups.com Now this, to the untrained eye looks seriously authentic compared to some spoof paypal site addresses.....