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.
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.
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
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.
Whoever the phisher is, it's probably not this guy....
US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced arrest of Jeffrey Brett Goodin of phishing to trick AOL users into divulging credit card info
Goodin could face up to 30 years in prison.
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,108134,00.html
Visit eBay immediately. Sign in and update your account with a new username and password.
Notify eBay of this email (they have information on their site of where to send the actual email so they can investigate).
In the future, NEVER respond to any such email message from ANY organization to which you belong without first visiting the site.
Another eBay/PayPal phish is to send you a message that your PayPal account has been charged $351.55 for a watch (in this case) and that if you aren't the winner, click here (ahem) to back out the funds. They even give you the seller's address (which, according to MapQuest, turns out to be phoney).
I guess they depend upon your outrage, and the oddball amount, to immediately "clear up" the situation.
I have gotten two from Paypal in the last week that have cloned the paypal site. Never trust a link in the e-mail. Usually the site that it links to gives it away.
I was 'phished' the other day - with a VERY authentic looking "Second Chance Offer".
Only glitchs:
1) NO link back to eBay for the reqisite "Buy it now" link
2) NO appeareance of the 'offer' appearing in "MyMessages" on eBay
3) The sender wanted direct response to the e-mail at a yahoo.com account.
4) The sender/response address bore NO resemblance to the sellers name or ID on eBay.
5) Bad English, but only slightly so, in the "Second Chance Offer"; close examination showed enough mistakes to raise suspicians (those scammers REALLY need to hire some grammatical help!)
A quick note to the original seller of the item on ebay confirmed my suspicians; he was glad to have been informed of the 'phish' attempt.
I also sent the e-mail and e-mail headers to spam@eBay.com per standard recommended procedure on eBay's site.