Anyone else getting slammed by eBay scammers?

[VintageMusclecar]

I've gotten something like 10 scam emails in the last month, 3 in the last 2 days.

This is getting WAY outta hand. eBay REALLY needs to do something about this. (I have a few ideas myself, but some may consider them a bit too "Old Testament" for today's society)

Sorry, just had to rant.

Eric

[Denis]

If you posted your email address on your new website, it's likely your address is being "harvested" by automated programs .

[VintageMusclecar]

If so, that's odd that they're all either eBay or PayPal related. I would think if I was being "harvested" that I'd be getting the nigerian scams instead of eBay/PayPal related stuff. I've never recieved the nigerian scam email.

Speaking of which, I got another scam email (this one was a PayPal deal) about an hour ago. That's 2 in one day.

There is no term that accurately describes my intense disdain for these lowlifes.

[427TJ]

I was getting both eBay and Pay Pal scam e-mails ("phishing" e-mails) until recently and they have dropped off dramatically. For a few months I was getting them almost daily and I kept forwarding them to the eBay "spoof" address and getting eBay's standard form-letter replies. I kept ignoring the senders and just forwarded them to eBay and they have finally stopped coming--for now. Maybe this round of scammers have moved on after realizing that I wasn't going to "bite." EBay owns Pay Pal and that might be why the eBay and Pay Pal scams tend to occur simultaneously.

Never open any e-mail claimed to be from eBay or Pay Pal regarding your account. If eBay or Pay Pal need to get ahold of you they do so through their site, not via e-mail. If your account is in good standing they really never need to get ahold of you. All they're interested in is that you pay your fees and beyond that the relationship is basically nonexistant. Just forward then delete those f-ing scammer e-mails.

[Denis]

Eric:

Dude, your email address is on your site's home page. That's how the spammers are finding you.

If you want visitors to your site to be able to email you while preventing spammers from getting your email address, you need an email obfuscator. Seriously.

Here's a link to a very simple one which is implemented in JavaScript so it should be really really simple to incorporate on your home page.

http://www.codehouse.com/webmaster_t...il_obfuscator/

You'll notice an immediate dropoff in spam.

[Chevy454]

Or put your email addy in an image as on the yenko.net mainpage...

[Denis]

The problem with hiding your email address behind a graphic, as done on this site's home page, is that the visitor has to type in the address by hand instead of simply clicking on a link. So this technique might work fine with a simple-to-type address like [email protected] but breaks down with an address like [email protected] which is Eric's address on his home page.

Here's a better way:

1. First, select and copy the HTML code below, no more no less, from '<a' to 'a>':

[ QUOTE ]
<a href="javascript:location='mailto:\u0076\u006e\u00 74\u0067\u006d\u0073\u0063\u006c\u0063\u0061\u0072 \u0070\u0061\u0072\u0074\u0073\u0040\u0077\u006f\u 0068\u002e\u0072\u0072\u002e\u0063\u006f\u006d';vo id 0">Eric Jackson</a>

[/ QUOTE ]

2. Edit your home page and replace your email address with the HTML code you copied in Step 1.

3.

[VintageMusclecar]

Denis;

Thanks! Took me a while, but I figured out how to enter HTML code on the page.



Eric

[SuperNovaSS]

I get about 3 a day on average.


Jason

[Chevy454]

I hear ya loud and clear, Denis...