Ebay and paypal spoof mails. Please read

soolin

I'm moving this to the spoof email sticky thread as it is a variation on the common phishing mail.

Soo

skylight

Recieved this morning a very convincing scam email. And I am not normally this daft!

It was a message from an Ebay member - that looked exactly like a mesage you recieve when a member sends you a message via My Messages section.

It simply read "Where is my package. Tell me or I will report you to Ebay".

However, the message also said that I could not reply back to the email, I had to click the Respond Now button.

Daft idiot that I am - clicked it. It takes you to the Ebay sign in page. I signed in and the next page told me that there was an error and I couldn't sign in at this time. Alarm bell finally kicked in!

Stupid girl. I have since gone in the correct way and changed my password though! (And did it fast!)

I know it was a scam as there was no message in My Messages of Ebay and I have never sold to this member (in the USA) either.


Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid girl!!!!!! :wall:


Lesson learnt - Never reply to the emails. Go into My Messages and do it from there (Which is the point of My Messages anyway!!!!)

masonic

At least you realised. Now would be a good time to do a virus check/spyware scan, in case the site had any other nasty surprises.

mjk_2

Thanks for telling us about that - it sounds really convincing. I recently had one scam mail but it was nowhere near as convincing as yours. I must admit I might have fallen for your one - and I'm not usually that stupid either!!

ShaunJUK

Get the eBay toolbar, if you open any page that isnt real it lets you know about it

gatita

Exactly the same thing happened to me last week, I am normally very careful and never respond to an email from Ebay in my mail box. I got an email from Ebay informing me that my account had been frozen as someone had tried to hijack my account! On checking someone in the States had listed tons of Nokia phones using my name and account! I nearly had a fit. Obviously I had to change all my passwords etc. and hopefully everything will be ok.
Please remember................DON'T EVER reply to an email from Ebay arriving in your mail box just in case it is a scam.

Rockee

I have had a few of these. There's another one they send out, saying you have bid on their item. It has a link to an 'ebay' listing with feedback etc.. looks very convincing. Your first reaction is to email them back to say that you haven't bid on this listing. Being sceptical of every email now, I just forwarded it on to spoof@ebay.co.uk and they confirmed that it was a spoof. The scammers are getting very clever and not letting up.

Februarycat

I have just had one today, saying where is my item, I have sent you money will report you to the police, it gave me a fright at first, but I know I have no items to send off or received any money, so checked on EBay page, My messages and the message is not on there, so presumed it is a spoof one, very convincing though.

$17mma

Thanks for this post!!

I will keep a look out and be on my guard...

Februarycat

I have just heard from EBay and the e mail is a spoof one.