spanish fraud sent me a link now i am confused

[abcmidlands]

Hi,

i am very confused please help me if you can.

i had an email from a man in spain saying he wanted to buy an item on ebay he also sent me an attachment that was supposed to tell me all about him but i did not open attach until i got home(home computer) then when i double clicked it just vanished so i went to ebay and clicked icon on ebay redirecting me to escrow.com i then completed the form except my bank details as i had a gut feeling not all as should be. i then sent this to the man in spain also asking for telephone number.
the following i recieved an email from escrow saying the other party had made a change to the escow form. but (here is odd bit) when i tryed to log on to escrow.com from my works computer escrow kept saying i was not registered and did not have any of my details yet when i log on at home computer the password is correct.

the spanish man never got any thing from me as i refused unless he gave me a contact telephone number to which he obvisously gave up as he new he had been rumbled.

now i have passed all information to escrow and all they say is they have no record of this even tho i had been emailed a verification code and transaction number.

i am totally baffled

if any one is intersestd i do have the spanish mans ip address if any one can make use of it

if any one can shed light please email me at andy@abcmidlands.com

or emmajaneprice@myway.com

or call me on 0121 525 5255 or 0777 3107346

kind regards

andy price

[peg]

You must be careful any more about clicking on links in messages sent to you. There is now a way to use special characters in another language to make you think you are going to a legit site (like paypal.com or escrow.com) but actually be going to another server.

To protect yourself, ALWAYS type the address in the address bar manually. This is much safer.

The responses you got (transaction number, verification, etc...) were likely fraud. If you gave sensitive info (credit card, passwords that you use elsewhere), then either change it, inform the issuer, etc... because that could have been the goal. (Phishing)

[Eric Brewster]

Eric Brewster:
abc, it is the old shell game of links........wording and lies, they tell you what you think you want to hear then ask you for a little bit more information.

Weird companies, a defrauder with an computer program that designs webpages that act like real companies or banks but that are not the real places. I was nearly taken several months ago and had been about 3yrs ago, I had to change my bank card and cancel my other one; it was an learning experience I will never forget.

However the Defrauders have to come up with an new shell game each time and convince you to tell them about your "piggybank"; once they had that info then they most likely would have stolen your identity and bilk you for all your bank account was worth.

[pcalatayud]

There is another scam that sends out pictures of appealing prodcuts and attachments of the product pictures. In actuallity, the attachement has a hidden program that captures keystrokes you make.

It is a harder one to pull off, but I heard about it from a person it happened to. He had it on his work computer, and the IT secuirty team had noticed small amounts of information was leaving his computer and going to China. The program was sending key strokes. The catch is that they know you may be interested in the product, and most likely you will check your bank account or senstivie information in order to complete the transaction.

[Eric Brewster]

Eric Brewster:
PCal, you sure got that exactly right.......programs for the scammers and hackers are going way beyond anyone's right mind. You cannot trust them at all, you never know whom may be monitoring the websites you think is legit.

Right now I am getting email from an Xiao Jun, this guy claims to be from Hong Kong and interested in hiring me to be an Representative for him in Canada.........oh yes he has either toys, fabric or other stuff that he wishes me to help him get clients to make payments on, me to send out money as in the usual way that these scammers operate, the interesting thing is that there is an American born Xiao Jung that is a computer wiz in the USA that has had something to do with creating Apple Computers.

I may be old school here but hey, if it is too good to be true then it has to be right? This shell game with similiar names is too old and is stinking in a garbage pile. Oh for any that wishes to quiz our Mr. Xiao Jun in Hong Kong his company name is "chin_fungtradinglimited@yahoo.com.hk"; I wish you good luck. May Jun's dragon of fortune not bite you in the ass.