Pages Tagged “ebay”
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- Finding Back Issues: Then and Now
I’ve had parts of this in draft form for at least 2 years. Last night, while brushing my teeth, I decided to pick it up with a new approach. This morning, I jotted down a couple of notes. And earlier this evening I saw Comics Should Be Good’s post, Where do you buy your comics?—and […]
- Nasty Ebay “About Me” Phish
Someone I know encountered a really sneaky eBay phish this weekend. It arrived through eBay’s official “Ask seller a question” system, and consisted of a simple request: Was his auction the same as the auction at the following About Me page? The URL was a normal eBay URL of the form http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/_____. Pasting the link […]
- Nigerian Scams for Auction?
eBay must have some sort of blanket advertising deal with Google, because the “sponsored links” you get for some searches really don’t make any sense. Case in point: I did a Google search for the phrase, “nigerian scam,” and saw the following ad: Wow, when they say, “Whatever it is, you can get it here.”—they […]
- One Degree
Anyone whose email address is posted on a web site probably doesn’t bother to identify who sent them viruses anymore. With faked return addresses and the high probability that your only connection to the sender is the fact that they visited your web page sometime in the last month, there really isn’t much point. Every […]