Ebay and paypal spoof mails. Please read

miaxmia

If it is a genuine email from ebay, then it will be in "my messages" on your ebay account. These are a pain and I've got to the point of not bothering to forward them to ebay as it doesn't seem to stop them at all. I just bin all emails and then go onto my ebay account to check there.

tempuscat

You & me both. And a lot of other eBayers, I suspect, who no longer bother reporting phony emails to eBay or PayPal. Perhaps there'd be more enthusiasm if just one case of an eBay scammer tracked & arrested as on record. But I am beginning to wonder if the days of phishing etc are coming to an end as consumers wise up, it's almost as if the bandwagon has ground to a halt and the only ones now clambering aboard are the most stupid scammers on the planet.

dickibobboy

well just looking through a hotmail account i dont use much and spotted an email from ebay, i have never used this email address for ebay before, i read it and thought what is it on about, saying i need to update my account details, then i saw the address that it came from and it was eBaY@co.uk.notify841382765.com

the message was

Dear eBay Customer!

During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with eBay.
Your card will be used for identification only and will not be charged at any time. By having this type of identification from all users, eBay remains a safe place to buy and sell. Setting up a seller account necessitates valid credit or debit card and checking account information.
For automatic payments, your credit card will normally be charged 5 to 7 days after you receive your invoice. Enter and submit the required information. Your account may be suspended for non-payment, and you may be responsible for collection costs.
If your account information is not update, your ability to sell or bid on eBay will become restricted.


why would ebay even need my card details at all!

there was a link at the bottom of the message
respond now! when i looked at where the link took me it came up with this http://signin.ebay.com.creditstatis.../ebay/login.htm

now that is not an ebay link!, but not sure what it is but the link dont work anyway

just thought i would share with you

soolin

I'm going to move this to the sticky thread as it is an 'old favourite'.

Soo

aav

Just got this email and I automatically new it was a spoof when it said dear member. I went through just to check and typed a random name and password then it asked me for my credit card details and my 4 digit pin. I sent them back an email telling them I know this is a spoof email and the email quality is so ad that I could do better than they could.

Attention id number: 8994241568

Dear eBaY member,

For the User Agreement, Section 9,

We may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely
suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our
services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial
loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also
take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate
any information you provide to us.


We inform you that your eBaY account could be suspended
if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this
problems please use the link below and re-enter your account information.
If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended
for a period of 24 hours, after this period your account will
be terminated.



Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBaY Inc. Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification.

tempuscat

aav -- it's a waste of your time to even attempt to email a scammer or play around with the phoney links they provide. Responding only makes them aware that they've found a new target.

aav

tempuscat wrote:

aav -- it's a waste of your time to even attempt to email a scammer or play around with the phoney links they provide. Responding only makes them aware that they've found a new target.

Don't worry it did not send. Get a email back saying message failed because of Invalid email address.

lazymoezy

What is this? its getting worse by the day, nearly everyone I know gets a spoof mail, these people need to be stopped. Anyways, now that everyone knows it exists, everytime you get an email just dont log in through the link, even if it happens to be genuinly from eBay, just do it from your browser, SIMPLE!

choccyface2006

I had a spoof email yesterday from service@usa-paypal.com, saying I made a payment, I knew it was a spoof email but clicked the link out of curiosity, Obviously I didn't try to log in, but is it harmful just to click the link? I read on here that you shouldn't even do that?

It wouldn't let me copy the email but I have forwarded ot to paypal.

Sarah

jamesbondjames0007

i got this some days ago.how amature he was.it was exactly like below.

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<table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"

align="center">

<tr valign="top">

<td><A href="https://www.paypal.com/us"><IMG

src="http://images.paypal.com/en_US/i/logo/email_logo.gif&quot; alt="PayPal"

border="0"></A>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

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<td background="http://images.paypal.com/images/bg_clk.gif&quot;

width=100%><img src="http://images.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif&quot; height="29"

width="1" border="0"></td>

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<td><img src="http://images.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif&quot; height="10"

width="1" border="0"></td>

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<td class="pp_heading" align="left">Dear valued PayPal® Member

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<td>

It has come to our attention that your <br><br> Congratulations!<b>PayPal®</b><br><br> account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

<br><br>You must

<b>click the link below</b> and enter your password on the following page

to Update your email address.<br><br>

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bgcolor="#FFFECD" align="center">

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<td class="pp_sansserif" align="center"><a

href=

"http://www.update-paypal.homeip.net/~vernanda/paypal/www.paypal.com/signinDQAAAG4AAADZ3XcFqGpyVexZXlp42ILckL16sz8USkBXj2StlL2lq74RZi-ZN0FOU7by8X_Jh2pn3AEECKZo8TFq0WyJ8IIGI0qgARKV_pf27Z0dSdpkBPWqiQQcY0sJJ8txaw-ifZToKQeM9OX1D4LVt4HygyKB.html">Click here to Update your account</a></td>

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<br>

<br>

<br>

<br><br>However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before: <ul><li>Buy from an online auction</li><li>Pay on a merchant

website</li><li>Send money to anyone with an email address</li></ul>

<br><br>



<BR>

You can also confirm your However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before: email address by logging into your PayPal

account at <a

href="http://www.vernanda.net/paypal/www.paypal.com/signinDQAAAG4AAADZ3XcFqGpyVexZXlp42ILckL16sz8USkBXj2StlL2lq74RZi-ZN0FOU7by8X_Jh2pn3AEECKZo8TFq0WyJ8IIGI0qgARKV_pf27Z0dSdpkBPWqiQQcY0sJJ8txaw-ifZToKQeM9OX1D4LVt4HygyKB.html">https://www.paypal.com/us/</a>. Click on

the "Confirm email" link in the Activate Account box and then enter this

confirmation number: 1328-8599-4830-9811-3174<br><br>

Thank you for using PayPal!<br>

The PayPal Team

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Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be

answered. For assistance,

<a href="www.Yourppaccount.com"> log

in</a> to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of

any page.<br>

<br class="h10">

To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update

your preferences <a href="http://">here</a>.

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</tr>

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<td><img src="http://images.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&quot; height="10"

width="1" border="0"></td>

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<td><br><span class="pp_footer">

PayPal Email ID PP468<br><br>

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<td><img src="http://images.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&quot;

height="1" width="10" border="0"></td>

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<td class="pp_sidebartextbold" align="center">Protect Your Account

Info</td>

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<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0">

<tr>

<td class="pp_sidebartext">Make sure you never provide your password to

fraudulent websites. <br><br>To safely and securely access the PayPal

website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or

Netscape) and type in the PayPal URL (https://www.paypal.com/us/) to be

sure you are on the real PayPal site.<br><br>PayPal will never ask you to

enter your password in an email.<br><br> For more information on protecting

yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at

https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips<br><img

src="http://images.paypal.com/en_US/images/pixel.gif&quot; height="5" width="1"

border="0"> </td>

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