eBay aims to thwart phishing
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 07 January 2005 - 11:05 · 8 comments & 813 views
eBay is rolling out a private messaging service to customers to make it easier to distinguish official announcements from fraudulent 'phishing' emails. The service - dubbed My Messages - offers a read-only inbox for logged-in users. Sending trading and account information to this location rather than via conventional email should give users greater confidence that messages are genuine rather than attempts to trick them into divulging sensitive information to fraudulent sites. My Messages was launched in the US late last month and will roll out to the UK later this quarter, an eBay UK spokesman told El Reg.

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by xploit1030 on 07 Jan 2005 - 11:50
I hope you can still foward those messages to a real email address.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by fr3ak on 07 Jan 2005 - 12:10
i dont think so. they're not "sent" to you as such
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Xer34 on 07 Jan 2005 - 12:51
Is it just me or do you guys also get like 30 spoofed emails every month from "ebay".
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Billprozac on 07 Jan 2005 - 16:46
So what is to stop the spammers from setting up an ebay account and sending phoshing attacks from that account?
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by VikingStorm on 07 Jan 2005 - 18:39
For one, they can actually stop and contain it... whereas they could do nothing at all before. (And the majority of the phising is pretending to be from eBay, which they can't do with the system)
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by feelgood13 on 08 Jan 2005 - 04:41
drats.. now they can monitor all the under-the-table deals
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Hills420 on 08 Jan 2005 - 16:28
Its pretty obvious that the emails I get are not from the Official Ebay. All it takes is common sense.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by YaZoR on 10 Jan 2005 - 09:48
Only n00bs fall for phishing scams anyway. Should learn about the internet/emails/computers etc, before complaining.
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