I'm still waiting the package to arrive What happened? Please mail me ASAP or I will report you to ebay.

[Markintosh]

Latest spoof e-mail from "eBay". Looked official but clicking the respond button linked to a site in Canada....reported.

And yeah I havent sold anything in 3 months...checked my account.

[TheCaber]

Be sure to enjoy the fresh new spam being minted and bulk emailed to you at this very moment! IRC-controlled spambot zombie PC's are online and activated!

Not to mention all the strangers who will be receiving genuine unrequested commercial offerings of all descriptions from you !!

[iaJim]

Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea to click the respond links on those emails. Just delete them and move on, or forward them to spoof@ebay.com with long headers.

[DavidS]

I get about one of those a week. They all go to spoof@ebay.com who assures me that they will track down those who sent it.

[Seacrest]

I shipped it yesterday.
You should have it in a couple days.

[rz]

here's what I do when I get email like that. First and foremost, I do not open emails that are obviously spam. It amazes me how I keep seeing people post here about how they opened what is CLEARLY spam. If I suspect that it's spam, I use Mail's "Save As" command, and save the email as a text-only document to the desktop. Then I open it in TextEdit. About 90% of the time, it's spam. If the spammer had a graphic in the email that could be used to track your email address, it won't work because I'm opening it outside of mail, and can see all the HTML coding.

[RAMd®d]

rz, cool tip.

I have a vague recollection of some form of mail having a pref that allows you to read it as text or html.

Mail.app gets about 85-90% of my spam, but sometimes stuff leaks through. I'd like to read one from time to time as I'm almost positive that it's spam, and curious, but not *postive*.

I opened one by accident some time ago and saw a spike in spam for a couple of months, then it tapered off. Though I'm curious, I don't want to take a chance on a 1 pixel graphic lurking.

I'll use this tip in the future.