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Re: Weird Email Concerning eBay Fraud
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Date: 
Tue, 23 May 2000 22:10:49 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Jan-Albert van Ree writes:
Check the email header...
If the original point is from a machine from ebay, it's official. If it's
not from the eBay domain, it's most likely faked.

That seems sensible and straight forward to me, but checkout where it
says "may be forged."  Here are the headers:

----------------------- Headers --------------------------------
Return-Path: <stopfraud@ebay.com>
Received: from  rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by
air-zb04.mail.aol.com (v73.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 May 2000 16:11:50 -0400
Received: from  int-mail.ebay.com (int-mail.corp.ebay.com [216.32.253.9]) by
rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 May 2000 16:11:19 -0400
Received: from kkamimot2 (208.185.222.152.ebay.com [208.185.222.152] (may be
forged))
by int-mail.ebay.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04459;
Tue, 23 May 2000 12:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: <stopfraud@eBay.com>
From: "eBay" <stopfraud@eBay.com>
To: <stopfraud@ebay.com>
Subject: USPIS Pasadena, CA Investigation
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:20:34 -0700
Message-ID: <000101bfc4ec$5c6349c0$98deb9d0@corp.ebay.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
----------------------- End of Headers ------------------------

See what I mean?  This is not something I have much knowledge about, so I
don't know what to make of it.  Pardon my ignorance...

-- Richard



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  Re: Weird Email Concerning eBay Fraud
 
Pretty much the same thing - my headers read the same. I remember bidding on a Melonfish auction (he had lots) if only because I felt that since he was just down the freeway from me, I wasn't that worried about fraud (must have picked up a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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  Re: Weird Email Concerning eBay Fraud
 
Richard Marchetti schreef: (...) Check the email header... If the original point is from a machine from ebay, it's official. If it's not from the eBay domain, it's most likely faked. (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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