Gone Phishing

[carmen_lj]

Yarg...I haven't used Ebay for a while. (Well over a year, in fact. And people have become a lot more whiney about feedback, it seems. The person who sent me the Doctor who stickers and badges along with my actual thingummie didn't, so I can happily leave them smashing feedback. But the spamming of "leave me feedback now!" messages is not very encouraging, no.)

Anyway, because I haven't used Ebay for so long, I completely forgot about Ebay Phishing Emails, and I just gave away my password to one and I AM A FOOL, essentially, yes. Though, luckily, I worked this out after I actually, y'know, glanced at the address bar thing and ran to Ebay change password and hopefully All Is Well, yes.

Those Give Me Your Bank Details ones have got a lot better too. Now I'm just getting Royal Bank of Scotland ones, yes. And that is actually me bank too. If only they hadn't sent me all those ones from Barclays I could surely have told them everything they want to know.

I bought chocolate milk from the supermarket. That is my Achievement of the Day. Methinks it is Quite A Good One, yes.

And Supernatural is back tonight, I think, yes? I remember to, ah, get hold of that tomorrow. I am hoping for many shots of Dean and his fabulous eyebrow-ish action.

Comments

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I, too, got one of those bank data phishing mails, too. Absent-minded as I am, I almost clicked on the link provided when I noticed that that of my banks which I don't use for online transactions had apparently contacted me because of online banking. And then I understood. Argh.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I do not get very convicing ones, woe. The Paypal ones are much sneakier in their ways.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

They've got really good at this phishing lark, haven't they? Well, good in an evil kind of way. I'm glad you spotted what you'd done quickly! If you were able to change your password, and it's now something very different, it should be fine - just check that you're not currently bidding on anything you don't mean to be. :-)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

There are no bids or such. I believe I am okay.

[jekesta]

Oh supernatural eeeeeeeee, so much excitement oh. I love that it is back adn smallville is back and alllll the television is back and this is joyful:):):):):):):):):)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I maybe not know exactly where to retrieve from as I do not torrent really and not on this computer at all, oh noes.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! That is good. I forget there, yes. Tut.

[fannishnonsense]

Ebay is evil, but it's a very useful evil.

And yep, Supernatural tonight. Though I'll be at my mom's so I have to tape it. Oh the sacrifices we make for family!

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Pfft! I must use Covert Means in order to obtain the telly, being on the wrong side of the Atlantic, woes.

[fannishnonsense]

Ah yes, I am quite familiar with Covert Means as they are what allow me to see Doctor Who in a timely manner.

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

I never give feedback to a seller until they give me feedback. And I'll often e-mail them to thank them for the successful auction and that I'll give 'em positive feedback if they do likewise. I feel, as the buyer, I took the initial risk in sending them the money, so I should be given feedback first. Plus most of the sellers have 500+ positives and I've got much fewer. (Mostly cuz I used to give feedback and think I'd get it in return only to discover far too many sellers just liked to receive feedback and never give it.)

What I've never done is bug someone to "give me feedback NOW" as you've been bugged. Blech!

Still waiting on my current seller for feedback. If it never comes, no matter. They ain't getting mine, either. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't had a problem so far. I give feedback when I've recieved the item. If you've got your item and it's fine then why wait for them? They're probably waiting for you to tell them it's fine through your feedback.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's Fear Of Bad Feedback.

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

Well, I used to always give it, but 50% of the time I never got feedback back. So my total is about half of what it should be. And the people who I gave feedback to had scores of 500 to 1000 or more. (People who didn't need it, but me with my 30 really could have used it.)

So I just changed my tactic. And it usually works.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I always give feedback, they it does sometimes take me a while unless they have Spammed Me With requests, hrrm. And I know a lot of sellers want the buyer to leave it first to signal that they're happy with the transaction.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

I get bored with this feedback thing. I tend to do it on Ebay, but even bloody Amazon ask for it now, and I can't be arsed. I bid, I win, I pay, you give me shiny things. Full stop. That should be it, surely.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Aye, I hadn't a clue about Amazon for months and I'd been selling a bunch of old law books and then there was feedback and I made a half-hearted attempt how to leave reciprocal stuff and gave up when it seemed tricksy.

[davidbrider.livejournal.com]

Apparently a useful clue with Phishing emails is that legit stuff will say "Dear xxxxxx" (where "xxxxxx" is your name), whereas fake stuff will just say "Dear customer".

David.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Those sneaky little phishers!

[tigereyed24.livejournal.com]

would you mind locking this post or removing the comment linking to sn provisions above? Thank you! (I'm a mod of that community)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Oh, cack, sorry. Will do.