Ebay and paypal spoof mails. Please read

heathen

sounds like someone was trying to hack your account,u did well to change your password so quickly,hopefully thats foiled their plans.

i seem to get more of this kind of stuff as each week goes by from people claiming to be from (e-bay,paypal,etc etc)

suman_das

I received this mail, very deceptive, in the mail a few days ago. The thing that gave it away, though, is that it mentions a date (10th June) that is still in future!!!
I have forwarded it to the <spoof@paypal.com>. Here it goes:

"Feedback Assistance

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to inform you that on June. 10, 2005 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

Our system requires further account verification.
Case ID Number: PP-420-219-309


We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

Click here to restore your account





You can also confirm your identity by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/. and you will be directed to the verifying page.

Thank you for using PayPal!
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, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.

To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.



PayPal Email ID PP468


Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.

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/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.

PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/securitytips


Protect Your Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees."

magoogy

i received an email meant to be from ebay telling me my account will be suspended in three days if i dont reenter my information (credit card included) - so, before doing so i emailed ebay to ask if they had sent it......they hadnt..................

please check before entering any personal information in anything....

pavlovs_dog

we regularly get en email along the lines of this

* * * Security Request* * *

Hello,


We are contacting you, for our safety and integrity of eBay !
Because of this nonpayment, you will be permanently suspended from the User Community, unless we obtain your payment in the next one week.
Won't you rejoin the eBay User Community?

So we ask you kindly to co-operate and let us know if you still use your account or not .
Time expired !

Click here to update you Registration Information.





Yours sincerely,

Collections Group
eBay Global Treasury Department




Copyright © 2005 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc.

which include the logo etc, and do look very convincing, but the url of the link they give gave the game away striaght away. if it was from ebay, it would be ebay.co.uk/yaddayaddayadda, not whole strings of random numbers and letters.

what a load of nonsense...it would be quite easy to see that the account is active...hardly inacctive if we've been selling like its going out of fashion these past few weeks :mad:

anyhoo, be warned, be vigilant

RACHIE77

Got this email today and the only way I knew it was suspicious was that I don't actually have paypal at this email address!!

Dear valued PayPal® member:

It has come to our attention that your PayPal® 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.


However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal. Go to the link below.
(deleted as I think it contained a script!)

Thank You.
PayPal® Security Center .

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

The only thing that baffled me was that the link you had to click started with.... http://www.paypal.com

but ended with /cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Does this meant that a script will be activated if i clicked on the link??

Rachie

SeoGuy_2

I have gotten previous emails like that, saying that i need to update my details with ebay and if i dont do it they will cancel my account etc... and then i noticed that the URL was actually an IP

Chalky87

Yes, that's one of the best ways to tell if they're spoof or not, the link often leads to an IP address in the web browser and this of course means that it is not the genuine eBay, PayPal sites, although I can see why a newbie would be very tempted to respond to these e-mails.

haydar_2

hi all I received this email and am 100% sure it is a spoof,

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Dear valued customer Need Help?



We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after this period your account will be terminated.

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.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.

Regards,Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc
The eBay team.
This is an automatic message. Please do not reply.

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The link it actually took you too is http://confirm-ebaymain.com/?eBaylSAPI.dll&VerifyRegistration

Please be aware and do fill in

Haydar

Swattie

Just had an email from "Paypal" asking me to
"Please Restore Your Account Access"

It's not genuine - if you get a similar one - IGNORE IT & DELETE.

We_Laugh_Indoors

i get stuff like this all the time.

the funniest ones i get are from US banks!