ANOTHER EBAY SCAM...

robnye

you could forward it to spoof@ebay.com

they will soon tell you whether it is kosher or not

Noozan

And your Paypal I hope ???

Yes. :-[ I can't believe I nearly fell for it though.

rtm

The only advice worth following is to NEVER EVER EVER click a link in an e-mail to any site you use which matters to you.

Whether it's ebay, or a bank, or whoever.

Always type the URL yourself in the browser window and you can't go wrong.

I'll add an other NEVER to that.

Good tip Mark.

Common Sense is free

pinkyler

Spendlers-Dosh - Go to CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU. I got problems with npower asking me to fork out £621 for electricity bill that I didn't make (I've moved out from the house) and they are very helpful & stern with npower.

Any other legal probs, debt collection that's not yours, go to CAB. They're free & they're very helpful.

supertuur

How to check if the email is SCAM.

Put whatever email address in it (not your registered one)

Put what ever password in it (not your registered one)

If you go straight through it is a scam.

It is that easy.

Arthur

cathrine_2

Hi,

to my knowledge genuine emails from Ebay and Paypal never contain Urls to help you login and verify account details. They usually send you an email asking you to login to your account as you usually would, and then follow the instructions contained in the email to resolve any issues. I know from experience that this is how it works after my Ebay account had been Hi-jacked, and Ebay emailed me to tell me about it, and what I needed to do to protect myself in future.

I know that some people do not like adding toolbars, but I have found the Ebay toolbar very helpful. If you have it installed and running, it will flash a warning if you do click on the Urls contained in one of these "dodgy" Ebay emails. When the web page loads the toolbar flashes a warning to say you are not on a genuine Ebay page and not to enter your Ebay login details. It will also warn you if logging into other sites if you are about to use the same password that your Ebay account uses. You should try and use a different password for every account that you have on the internet. If you use the same password on more than one account, it would be easy for someone who knows one password and also has your email address (as this is usually all that is required to login to some accounts) to try that password and email combination in the hope that they can gain access to something else.
The toolbar allows you to forward these "Spoof" emails to Ebay, the more feedback they get, the more secure it will be for us all.

Spendless_Dosh

Thanks Robnye, did send details to Spoof@ebay however all I got back was an automated reply saying my email was not received as they can only accept forwarded emails relating to sites trying to impersonate ebay.

Nice to see they care eh!

robnye

Thanks Robnye, did send details to Spoof@ebay however all I got back was an automated reply saying my email was not received as they can only accept forwarded emails relating to sites trying to impersonate ebay.

Nice to see they care eh!

i suppose it does confirm that it isnt kosher....

Quinny_2

I received one of these links as well,and,unusually for me,I clicked on it,as I have a 100% rating on E.Bay,so the idea of me being a power seller,appealed to me.

I then found I couldn't access my account,so contacted E.Bay,and fair play to them,they suspended my account.It took about 3 days to sort out,and they had traced it to an ISP in Spain,who was also selling a car using my details.(A BMW M3 in fact!!!!)

Now I'm pleased to say that everything has been restored to it's former glory.

Pikeman_2

I dont know if someone already has mentioned this before (if so apologies) but i thought i should warn you all.
My partner was contacted by "Ebay" last week via email asking him if he wanted to become a "Power Seller", if so all he had to do was go to the link provided and sign in, which he duly did (the site did look like ebays format) giving his name and password.
Since then he has been unable to sign in to ebay and has found out that the email is bogus. >:(
Luckily his sign in password is different from his paypals. We are currently awaiting a response from ebay. So please be warned.
We have been told by others that this is scam used to obtain peoples passwords as they often use  the same password to sign in as well as their paypal one.

eBay will always quote your ID in an email and will never ask for personal details to be updated, I get 2-3 mails a week with a link to a spoof site asking to update my account details due to eBay hackers. Its a load of rubbish.