Ebay warning - email received!

MimiJane

I received an email this morning (from "ebay") asking me to pay for an item I'd never heard of and had certainly never bid for (some photo item). It was very authentic looking, but I was obviously suspicious. I have Norton installed and got a warning page up saying this was a potential plishing attack and advising me to not enter the web page and delete the email, which of course I did.

Has anyone else had an email like this?

Snooze_Control

MimiJane wrote:

Has anyone else had an email like this?

Yes, about 50 per day from pretend Ebay addresses are blocked on my various accounts.

SC

soolin

MimiJane wrote:

Has anyone else had an email like this?

Lots, including mails to accounts I don't even use on ebay. I also get a lot of Chase manhattan phishes as well, despite never having had an account there.

You might be interested in the ebay and paypal spoof emails sticky thread on this forum, it makes interesting reading!

Soo

Avoriaz

Emails like that are almost always bogus or phishing emails.

Even if you don’t get a Norton warning, you should never respond to an email like that by clicking on any of the links in it.

If you are unsure whether something is genuine or not, log on as normal and see if the message is also there.

Ebay, banks etc don’t normally communicate with you via your email. They usually have a safe and secure messaging system within their own sites.

Never click a link in an email like that no matter how genuine it appears to be.