[Elecraft] Way OT - eBay - HELP

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

The most telling clue is that the message provides a link to click on. A
real message from Paypal or Ebay or any financial institution will NOT
provide a link to their web site. The message will tell you to go to your
account and log on. 

The links are easy to forge. Clicking on the blue link that says
"www.paypal.com" may well send you to "www.gotcha-sucker.com" or some such
place. Of course, the site will say it's  what you think it should be and
it'll look exactly like the real thing, including all the graphics, page
layout, etc., but it isn't the "real thing".

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
  There's an easy way to check if it's genuine email. When contacting by
email regarding account details, Ebay and Paypal always address the client
by full name, not something like 'Dear Paypal Client".

  Here's a great page within a site - just about every hard-to-find US
telephone number and ways to shortcircuit the menu systems - my cyber-friend
Rosie gave me the link. http://gethuman.com/us/

Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962
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