Posted on 02/01/2006 6:08:04 AM PST by pabianice
I sell books on Amazon.com. I get phished like this on a weekly basis. They pretend to be Amazon.com with urgent info for me, or they're threatening to cancel my account, or they tell me someone ELSE has been trying to get at my CC number and I need to re-enter it...blah, blah, blah.
While the graphics are spot-on, there are always grammar and spelling errors. *Rolleyes*
It's good to warn people of this though, so, Thanks! :)
If I want to know what's going on with my eBay purchases I just go right to the site, I don't open e-mail which MAY be from them.
Foward it to ebay and ask them.
There is another one where people post expensive items for low Buy-it-Now prices and then if you attempt to contact the seller about it, you get an email from ebay saying that the phisher has basically stolen the information from a legitmate seller and is using it in some sort of scam. I found it when I was looking at upper end cruiser motorcycles. The dead giveaway is the ridiculously low price and no VIN.
Legitimate email from Ebay will always be copied to your messages area in your "myEbay" account area. If it ain't there, it ain't legit.
Forward the email to spoof@ebay.com. It is important that all phising letters go to spoof. they jump right on it.
I got a cute one the other day:
It was a 2nd chance offer for a corvette ($1900.00). LOL, like I'm gonna fall for that.
Sure enough, it was a spoof.
I've had this kind of thing happen a good bit recently on ebay as well.
Ebay messages do not only come to the email account you registered with ebay, they also go to your Messages in MyEbay. If unsure, always log onto your ebay account and check for messages there.
Forward the bs email to spoof@ebay.com. You'll get boilerplate in reply from them, but it at least lets them know.
ANYONE who follows an email link to an ebay or paypal or bank site is, simply, stupid.
can't think of another way to say it
somebody should start an ebay ping list.
No more stupid than the folks who cannot help but post their useless opinions on these kinds of threads.
This is new???
Stay away from Ebay. Problem solved.
Are you that desperate to sell and buy crap that you have to go to this ridiculous website??? Anyone who uses or goes to e-bay or anyother such should be confined for observation.
Also don't leave your 9 year old daughters alone with their bass player.
But of course that excludes your delightful and insighful missives. Right?
Best wishes and I hope those hemorrhoids get better.
As an avid ebayer, I've been getting similar messages for hte past couple of months. Some are ebay phish emails, but most are paypal scams. If one is in a hurry or distracted, it could be easy to fall for some of these scams. The links appear to go to ebay or paypal, but actually go to a completely different URL. BEWARE
I strongly disagree- I got a WONDERFUL pair of BOSE 911 speakers from ebay for about 1/4 the cost of a new pair.
They are the best speakers I have ever owned
And here's another scam I've seen and heard about a few times. You win the auction, and you pay with PayPal (which doesn't give the seller any of your banking or credit card numbers). Then they don't collect the funds, and the seller tells you they need you to pay via electronic check or credit card--which does give them that information. It happened to me this week, and I backed out of the sale and reported them to eBay.
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