How do these idiots get my username and email address anyway??

mrs_sparrow

I seem to have been inundated with these recently - usually you can tell but I have not see this one before tonight. i have removed my details but they are all correct :mad: :

Whiner

You might want to remove those hyperlinks, they are still clickable...

mrs_sparrow

Whiner wrote: »

You might want to remove those hyperlinks, they are still clickable...

Yes I know, but no-one is that silly are they......??? They show that it's being redirected away from eBay. For that very reason, I left them on and have pointed out it is a scam!!

The last 10-12 emails from 'ebay' I have (since Sunday) have included my username.

craftycrafty

I had this same problem a while ago, not only with eBay. I changed my password on all of my accounts as I was advised to do to be on the safe side. It does seemed to have worked.
And as you already know never click through the links.

bxboards

I've been getting Second Chance offers, in a similar format, also with my username and real name too.

The give away is that is doesn't appear in my Ebay messages, and also requests payment by Western Union.

Whiner

mrs_sparrow wrote: »

Yes I know, but no-one is that silly are they......???

They sure are! Thats why these scammers are still about.

I thought people werent that daft these days, and that scammers were well knows, but two people where I work were almost scammed recently.

One out of an iPad, he couldn't see he was being scammed, and one bloke almost got scammed out of £5500 for a car advertised ludicrously low priced on Autotrader. Even when I told him it was a scam, and gave about 6 reasons why, he still refused to believe me...!

theonlywayisup

Whiner wrote: »

You might want to remove those hyperlinks, they are still clickable...

I agree, the links should be removed.

Your one post will be seen by more people than the email sent to you.

Someone could click in error and not realise.

Kayalana99

I just assumed they get them off eBay. It shows your e-mail and username on every listing if your a business. I got this one as well as it showed up on my phone but I never even bothered to look at it.

It amazes me with my facebook customers how many of them refuse to use pay pal and want to pay by bank transfer ~ even after I explain if I send them a pay pal invoice they can pay by card its 'to complicated'

I saw someone last week selling a dress for £200 and someone offered £600 and was so obviously just messing her around and yet she was like yes please!! What's going on? Don't you want it now? Can someone please tell me what's happening?

-.-

RFW

Back in the day when user ids appeared on bidding they targetted buyers who had their username similar to their user id.
So if your Ebay id is "Seller12345" they used bots to send to all the email address, eg seller12345@gmail.com, then @hotmail.com. There's enough that have that as their email that it was worth them doing. One regular customer queried a second chance offer and forwarded me the email. I managed to have an exchange of emails with a "nice chap" in Nigeria who tried to sell me my own stock!

This_Year

Kayalana99 wrote: »

I just assumed they get them off eBay. It shows your e-mail and username on every listing if your a business. I got this one as well as it showed up on my phone but I never even bothered to look at it.

The email address shown on my listings is not my registered email address so any "ebay" type emails that come through to this address I disregard.