Ebay Phishing Attempt

I like to think that I'm smarter than the phishers out there on the net.  However, I almost got tricked today.  I have a Roku Soundbridge for sale on Ebay.  I got this question today... It's a real message received through ebay itself.  So, I did what anyone else would do.  I pasted the stores.ebay.com/W4QQZ150147339995Q url into my browser.  I got the ebay logon prompt, which was odd, since I had just logged in.  I took a look at the URL in the browser, and it was site.voila.fr! I was *that* close to entering my logon details!  This random store has javascript to redirect the user to the site in France.  Very simple, yet very effective.  Hopefully, ebay will take notice and prevent javascript on the page in the future!

John West

John West is an independent technology consultant who specializes in using technology to improve business processes.  That means that technology for its own sake isn't worth much; it's value only comes from helping people do things better, cheaper and faster.

That said, he spends way too much time testing cutting-edge gadgets that often come with promises of making things better and faster, but often fail to live up to those promises.  And they usually fail on the cheaper front as well.

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