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Old March 12th, 2005 Top | #1
 
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I received the following e-mail today:

Dear eBay member,

Technical services are being carried out on a planned software upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following link to start the procedure of confirmation of your personal data. follow this link to update account information.

However, failure to update your billing information record will result in account termination.

We present our apologies and thank you for your cooperation.

***eBay Billing Departemnt team.
And yes, 'Department' was actually misspelled. Jeez, these people don't even try that hard anymore. I guess it's hard work being dishonest.
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I got one for Washington Mutual, which is not even my bank, so i went to the page, filled in fake information, including a made up credit card number which only contains 1$ and can only be used till it is up (You know, one of those gift card thingies), and they "logged" me in as if nothing had happened :P.

So now they have bad information, to try and exploit.
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Originally Posted by X-Istence
I got one for Washington Mutual, which is not even my bank, so i went to the page, filled in fake information, including a made up credit card number which only contains 1$ and can only be used till it is up (You know, one of those gift card thingies), and they "logged" me in as if nothing had happened :P.

So now they have bad information, to try and exploit.
Good one, X.
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lol fwd that email back to them and tell them they mispelled it


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