Weird e-mails from customer service @ eggbid e-mail?

[asher]

I've gotten a few today. Here's the latest:


"Dear (my name),
Play Ground Online For English - USA – VietNamese
Timtoi.Info have categorys funny .Eg:games,picture funny..."

What in the world? I have two accounts there and haven't checked the other. (ETA: Yeah, on the other e-mail, too. I hope the e-mail addresses were the only thing compromised. *sigh*)

I can only assume their e-mail got messed up or they have a virus or something? I've honestly never had luck contacting and getting a reply from egg bid so haven't even bothered trying, plus it's the same address that I'm getting the crud from so...

 

[goatkeepers]

Yup, I just got that same email. Weird!! The link takes you to a (vietnamese?) game site or something like that. If I had time right now, I would contagt eggbid. I bet they got hacked.

 

[revelu]

I got two of those today too-- very weird

 

[arlee453]

Typical SPAM.

They can put whatever email address they want as the 'from' - it doesn't have to match the actual email account it was sent from.

SPAM programs/viruses often take email addresses to use as the 'from', as well as the "to' from blind internet searches for email addresses and links.

I have a business and get stuff all the time that has my OWN email as the 'from' and I know I didn't send myself that rather tasteless SPAM ad for viagra...

 

[asher]

Maybe so...but kind of odd that members of eggbid are getting in...in other words, where would they get the e-mail addresses? One of mine in particular, I have ONLY used for eggbid. Never used it for anything else at all.


Here's the source/info for anyone smart enough to figure it out! hehe

X-AOL-UID: 3196.772371494
X-AOL-DATE: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:56:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from rly-da05.mx.aol.com (rly-da05.mail.aol.com [172.19.129.79]) by air-da08.mail.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILINDA084-a70486bb33321e; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:56:31 -0400
Received: from eggbidweb.dedicated.expresstech.net (65.182.193.118.static.sdf.hosting.com [65.182.193.118]) by rly-da05.mx.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINDA058-a70486bb33321e; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:56:19 -0400
Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]) by eggbidweb.dedicated.expresstech.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:00:34 -0400
Content-type: text/plain
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:11:01 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: wWw.TimToi.Info
To: (removing my e-mail)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jul 2008 17:00:34.0093 (UTC) FILETIME=[246C15D0:01C8DC65]
X-AOL-IP: 65.182.193.118
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_helo : n
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_822_from : n
X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version)
MIME-Version: 1.0

 

[goatkeepers]

Uhm.. Yeah, that anyone sure won't be me!

I (sadly) don't have the first clue how to tackle that. I guess you can trace the ip?

 

[gamebirdsonly]

just checked my mail and yup i have one. I deleted it.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Same here I got two of these today.

 

[GracefulBantams]

Here's something to make this even stranger! First, I too got one of these emails, so I contacted the real EggBid people. In about 30 min, I received a second copy of the same original spam!!!

 

[asher]

Yikes. That worries me. Glad I don't have any credit card information on file with them. At least, I don't think I do. EBay on the other hand, has EVERYTHING.