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eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 12, 2002 @09:37PM from the pulling-a-fast-one dept.

hether writes "Customers of the auction site eBay have been targeted by a site called ebayupdates.com. The site attempts to steal credit card details from eBay's 55 million customers. The SANS Institute Internet Storm Center issued the warning on this one. Info about the scam can be found on the BBC site, CNN, CNet, vnunet, and more. Funny enough there's no mention of this on the eBay site..."

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Re:Yet another example of bad security by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-12 21:45 · Score: -1, Redundant

New open source business-model?

1: Write free software.
2: ?
3: Read some.
4: Profit!
Re:Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-12 21:47 · Score: -1, Redundant

It's a new open source business-model!

1: Write free software.
2: ?
3: Receive scam in spambox.
4: Profit!
IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-12 22:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

Does nobody read the articles anymore? =)
In Soviet Russia, article reads you!