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[stellar_muddle]

So, someone has finally noticed that Trade me (think NZ specific equivalent of Ebay), can be scammed off. Hence I get a email purporting to be about a trade me auction I was involved with. Since I have never had a login for Trade Me, let alone used this particular email address on it, and the url appeared to go to not a Trademe address, great fishy fishy smells were wafting past.

So I figure the polite thing to do is to report it to Trade Me - so they know such things are going on (in case they didn't before or would like stats on the rates).
Go to their website and discover that their "contact us" page is bollocks. None of their suggested categories cover what I wish to ping about or are any help what so ever and I have no desire to pay $2 per minute to tell them that they have a slight problem they should keep an eye out for.

Hmph.

I think the tea may need to sink in a bit more...

Though the lying in bed listening to National Radio interviews and the rain and wind while nice and warm and snuggled up to a reading Z was definitely good :)

Time to venture forth into the wind...

Comments

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

The problem is that TradeMe really can't do anything about it. An email can come from anywhere and purport to be from anywhere else -- just like any other letter. Just because I put a letter to you in the post doesn't mean I can't write "Queen Betty, Buckingham Palace, London W1" as the return address on the envelope. It's the same with email.

So there's no real gain in pointing this out to TradeMe as they can't stop (nor really track down) the person sending you fake emails, any more than Queen Betty can put a stop to me writing a fake return address on an envelope. I mean, I could send you an email, purporting to come from Z, asking you to give me money, but there'd be no point you complaining to Z about that.

[slothphil.livejournal.com]

It's probably useful for them to know which scams are active, though.

[alpha-angel.livejournal.com]

I got one from "kiwibank" that I forwarded to Kiwibank, including the full header which included the actual originating email. Got an automated response - "Dear Bob... blah blah blah"