Posts tagged: RISKS

A lot of eBay phishing scams take you to websites that not only mimic the look of the site they’re impersonating, but actually contain live links to that site and even use images hosted there.

I just got one today: an email with the ironic subject line of “eBay Fraud Mediation Request.” I always take a look at these to see if the scammers have any new tricks. I even click on the links (being a Mac user emboldens me there). This one took me to a site called www.signin-e-bay.com (I’m omitting the full link that takes you to the scam pages). The page was full of links to real eBay pages and used images hosted on eBay servers.

Via Bruce Schneier: In Cambridge, England, police are reporting multiple thefts where laptops stored in car trunks (er, “boots”) have been located by thieves using Bluetooth-capable cellphones. What were those people thinking? Don’t they care about battery life?

The RISKS Digest from May 2005 also has a posting about the same thing happening at Disney World.