January 29, 2009

  • Nice Try... but FAiL!!

    I get a call from Ryan in the customer service department about a suspicious email and a possibility that our system has been compromised.
    I advised him not to click any links and i headed over to his office to check the email for myself. Sure enough, it was definitely a scam.

    here's a scan of the message sent to him. Click on the image for the full view

    fail 001
    First of all, the email screams fake. If this indeed was sent on ebay's behalf, the images would have shown up. Second, the FBI does not handle ebay disputes. Third,  we never sold PSPs on ebay. The listing number is fake, the email is fake and last but not least, we never click links in emails, we just hover over the URL and the actual URL shows up and it didnt even match the visual url.

    SO what did we do? Ryan reported this to paypal, and ebay. I print this out and break out the trusty "Fail Stamp" andofficially failed the document. It is now posted up on the door between the IT Department and the back warehouse for all of the company to laugh at that failure.