Shoutbox

I just took a look at my filtered-as-spam mail in my Gmail account, and saw a fake email claiming to be from eBay.

I opened it just to take a look and was greeted by a nice, big, red banner, added by Gmail, telling me that the message didn't actually come from eBay.

Take a look:


It also disabled the links in the email, that would have taken you to the information logging site.

What do you all think?

To me it seems a lot better that Microsoft's effort in Hotmail.

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Originally posted by mwe99
E-bay never ask you to confirm accounts although the email looks like ebays

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Well they obviously will try to make look as genuine as possible to trick as many people as they can.

I use gmail and have never seen that message before, but it's good to know that just in case something like that happens to my account, gmail's system looks good and safe.

seen that a few weeks ago, dunno how old it is though

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Originally posted by monster.rat

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Originally posted by mwe99
E-bay never ask you to confirm accounts although the email looks like ebays

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Well they obviously will try to make look as genuine as possible to trick as many people as they can.

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I know that the email and site are fake and not related to eBay, but they site are actually very well made (PM me if you want to see the site, I'll reply with the URI (unless a mod or someone says I can post it)). I would imagine a lot of people gave in their accounts to the fraudsters.

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Originally posted by monster.rat
I use gmail and have never seen that message before, but it's good to know that just in case something like that happens to my account, gmail's system looks good and safe.

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Go Gmail!

In traditional hacker style, a gramatical error; "Never share your eBay password to anyone!".

erm it does point out that it's not a real ebay email in hotmail too... i've had the same for my hotmail account... ok so it's not in red... but it still has the same banner thing above messages like this

yeah this has been there for several months i dont know how long exactly because they never announced for some reason. it is kinda useful good to know its there i guess.

this is really cool, but i havnt seen it before!?

I think I'll stick with hotmail ... and if nothing else... my school has email there too... and they don't seem to want to delete people out of the database after they've graduated or moved or anything... They have some people that haven't been in school for like 3 years so I think I'm safe using that one for a long time yet.

Same happnened here, but for paypal!

I liked it, I really thought that the paypal thing was true, then I saw it blocking it.

i saw that quite a while back for some dodgy spam email   its quite handy