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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 (...) (26 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. (26 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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