Strange e-mail

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Posted By: Tim

Anyone else receive a similar e-mail (below) today??? Did MPWR@YAHOO.COM change his eBay id to mpwr2@migente.com or has his identity actually been stolen?

Subj: Question from eBay Member
Date: 10/15/2002 8:41:38 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: youdeman@webtv.net
To: tsedl2244@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)

To member: t_sedlock
From member: goreds1

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CAN YOU CONTACT EBAY?
THIS PERSON HAS STOLEN MPWR@YAHOO.COM-- AUCTIONS.
HE ASKED ME TO CONTACT EBAT AND HE ASKED THAT I ASK YOU TO AS WELL.I GUESS HIS ID HAS BEEN CHANGED BY A HACKER AND HE CAN'T EVEN COMPLAIN TO EBAY BECAUSE HIS ID WON'T WORK.

HE SAID THANKS FOR ANY HELP

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Posted By: David

I didn't get that one. But a few days ago I got one they said I had bid auctions I didn't bid on, and if the bids were inaccurate that I should contact eBay.

My guess is that it was an ant-eBayer hoping to get people to complain to eBay and clog their complaint lines. They obviously underestimated my laziness.

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Posted By: Paul

As if ebay's own conduct didn't generate enough complaints to clog their system...

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Posted By: runscott

It contained a virus file attachment!

Check the date and the name of the winner - I suspect it's a new virus that finds old emails on an infected computer and sends them to people in the infectee's address book.