{"id":133,"date":"2005-12-09T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T09:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T03:38:06","slug":"ebay-falls-for-false-ebay-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/ebay-falls-for-false-ebay-email\/","title":{"rendered":"EBay falls for false EBay email!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From the you can never be to careful category&#8230; Ebay tricked by phony e-mail. A sophisticated phishing attack has proven to be so successful, it has tricked eBay Inc.&#8217;s own fraud investigations team into endorsing it as legitimate, according to an independent security consultant who reported the attack to eBay. In late November, Richi Jennings received a fraudulent e-mail message containing the subject line &#8220;Christmas is Coming on ebay.co.uk.&#8221; Offering him &#8220;great tips for successful Christmas selling,&#8221; the message directed him a Website that asked Jennings to enter his eBay user name and password, as well as the name and password for his e-mail account. Jennings reported the site to eBay on November 25, and four days later he got a note back from the company&#8217;s investigations team claiming that the e-mail message was, in fact, &#8220;an official e-mail message sent to you on behalf of eBay.&#8221; On Monday, December 5, eBay spokesperson Amanda Pires confirmed that the e-mail message was indeed part of a fraud, but she could not explain why it had<br>initially been identified as legitimate. Pires said that eBay had been working to take down the phishing site since November 8.<br>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/05\/12\/05\/HNebaytricked_1.html\">Source<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the you can never be to careful category&#8230; Ebay tricked by phony e-mail. A sophisticated phishing attack has proven to be so successful, it has tricked eBay Inc.&#8217;s own fraud investigations team into endorsing it as legitimate, according to an independent security consultant who reported the attack to eBay. In late November, Richi Jennings<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/ebay-falls-for-false-ebay-email\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,35,33],"tags":[55,174],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-theft","category-law-enforcement","category-in-the-news","tag-funny","tag-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}