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Old 10-14-2010, 04:34 PM
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Exclamation Uh... WeSellCarParts.com Hacked?

Anyone else get this email?

Hello dear customer,

First of all, WeSellCarParts thanks you for buying car parts from us.
To improve our services our team is making a survey to find out how old our customers are.
For this survey, we need you to tell us your birth date and the last six digits of your SSN in the following format:

DOB: mm-dd-yyyy
SSN: XXX-00-0000

The first 10 customers who respond to this survey will receive a $100 voucher code for shopping on our website. We expect your reply.

Thank you for your understanding and have a nice day!
Uh... helllllllll no. That just screams scam to me. Anyone else?
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Old 10-14-2010, 04:52 PM
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scam all over it.
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:03 PM
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really??!!
i didn't get that email. I have bought S pipe from them in the past. Anything asking for DOB and SS # is sure a scam.
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:06 PM
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lollll do it!!
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:19 PM
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F*&^, i just got that email. I hope those scammers get Squirrel AIDS.
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:22 PM
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no worries! i have Lifelock!!

j/k...
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:31 PM
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That's so legit!
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:33 PM
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reply with a bullsht dob and social
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:34 PM
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This has beem brought to our attention and has been fixed.

thanks
Dan
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:35 PM
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Squaids is some serious ish!

Lol i say just give them some fake info and get that nice coupon
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by WeSellCarParts
This has beem brought to our attention and has been fixed.

thanks
Dan


So whats the deal dan cant just get emails like this with out some sort of reason. Is this something to worry about now!?
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Old 10-14-2010, 06:01 PM
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i swear i didnt do it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:14 PM
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Good evening,

This afternoon an email was sent out to a few of our customers looking as if it was from us requesting confidential information. This email was not from wesellcarparts.com. Our email database had been compromised and an email was sent out. Please ignore this email. Your privacy is important to wesellcarparts.com. We are working diligently to ensure that our customer information is secure. We have taken many measures and over the coming days will take additional measures. To whomever has replied – we noticed the compromise immediately and took immediate action to clear it up. Any responses were immediately deleted from our servers.

As an appreciation for your continued business, we are offering $10.00 off any future order over $100.00. This discount can be used through December 31, 2010.

If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your continued business and for shopping with WeSellCarParts!

Dan Haddle

Co-owner, WeSellCarParts.com

Steve Chopick
Co-owner, WeSellCarParts.com
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:33 PM
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I knew it was a scam cause no busniess should need part of your SSN or your DOB for any reason espicially over the internet.....even if it was legit,i wouldn't give out that info to begin with.....cause you just never know whos on the other end.....but glad it was taking care of
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Old 10-18-2010, 08:32 AM
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LOL it's funny that some people actually replied, and dan/steve had to clear it up.
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Old 10-18-2010, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BlkTC
LOL it's funny that some people actually replied, and dan/steve had to clear it up.
x2, people should know better......im a pc tech,so i personally knew it was a scam just by looking the the wording......
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Old 12-26-2010, 10:28 PM
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how do we go about getting the ten dollars off over 100 dollars buy?
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