Scammers suck!

[yoshinya]

Alright! This is just a post to make sure everyone stays on their toes these up-coming months. Going into the holiday season......we have lots of people who try to pull fast ones, steal, change things around, lie and even resort to making a big scene. Than we have the internet tards. Be wary of e-mails....I mean all kinds. I recently had

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How did that happen?

[sydney2k]

>>They broke into my e-mail thru an e-mail and tried to start selling stuff under my ID.<<

What did they do to get access to your e-mail address? (Just so I can make sure that doesn't happen to me.

Wyd

Re: How did that happen?

[yoshinya]

Not entirely sure. I believe they e-mailed people under the pretense of pretending pretending to be an authorized person from e-bay telling you to re-authorize your account or verify or something along the lines to that effect. The only way it is successful is if you repsond to the e-mail. Otherwise you should be okay.

[labrynthos]

That does suck. At least you didn't get totally screwed.
*hugs* More paranoia is what you need babe!!!

[kisaki_kun]

good thing you caught it before they "sold" stuff under your id....

People are evil! *nar*

So, how goes it up North? *grins*

[yoshinya]

*huggles* Eh....busy....retail + holiday season= SUPA BUSY?! *L* Yeah, I'm glad it was caught before anything really detrimental happened. *sighs* Damn I haven't chatted w/ you in like forever. When you coming up North? *L*

[kisaki_kun]

it's looking like I'm not going to be able to.. gotta be in Germany by the 5th of Jan, so this next month (aka DEC) is going to be spent sorting my stuff and packing it all! *sighs* I thought I was good for another 2 months at least!

*grins* yeah, I'm glad I don't work retail any more!!! *WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* Thank god!