WARNING ebay and paypal spoof emails

frivolous_fay

Spam reported

eyelinerprincess

Just had one from "Paypal"

Information Regarding Your account: Dear PayPal Member!

Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!

Someone with ip address 82.121.62.31 tried to access your personal account!

Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.

Click here to remove your limitations


You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at
http://www.paypal.com/ Click on the "Confirm email" link in the Activate Account box and then enter this confirmation number: 1099-81971-4441-9833-3990

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance,
PayPal Email ID PP391 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 login page (http://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/us/securitytips
Protect Your Password You should never give your PayPal password to anyone.

purplevamp

Had an interesting email yesterday. It's a new one on me, but still spam. Looks like they're finding new ways to catch us out.



From:-
Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@sjciport10.sjc.ebay.com
[FONT=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif]The following message to <[EMAIL="spoofd&#64;fts.vip.ebay.com"]spoofd@fts.vip.ebay.com[/EMAIL]> was undeliverable.The reason for the problem:5.4.7 - Delivery expired (message too old) '[Errno 61] Connection refused'[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif]Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL="spoofd&#64;fts.vip.ebay.com"]spoofd@fts.vip.ebay.com[/EMAIL]Action: failedStatus: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.4.7 - Delivery expired (message too old) '[Errno 61] Connection refused' (delivery attempts: 0)[/FONT]

Sharon87

I had one ages ago from 'eBay'. I can't remember what the said exactly on it, but I clicked on the link and (unwisely) logged in. I thought the site looked a bit different, as I later realised it was ebay.com, not ebay.co.uk. Once I 'logged in' the next page asked for my PIN number! How stupid do they think I am! Everyone knows the only person who knows your pin number is yourself (and whoever you tell) They didn't even ask for bank details before that.

Needless to say I reported it eBay and changed my password.

jambored

Glad this site is warning me. I think paypal should warn me, especially, since they have my cc and checking account info. Wow. I need to be more careful. Thanks for telling me about this...

soolin

jambored wrote: »

Glad this site is warning me. I think paypal should warn me, especially, since they have my cc and checking account info. Wow. I need to be more careful. Thanks for telling me about this...

Yep, all your paypal log ins and emails carry an anti phish warning, as do most bank emails and every bit of paper the bank sends you.

vangirl_2

Hi, Ive just received this email from aw-confirm@ ebay.com Am sure its fake. have forwarded it to ebay. Will let you know.
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
Dear eBay Community Member, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana] A previously entered bid on your item (item number) has been retracted or cancelled. You can view the retraction/cancellation and the reason provided by selecting the (bid history) link from the individual item page. As a result of this retraction/cancellation, there is a possibility that the high bid amount and the current high bidder have changed. You can always view the current status of any item by going to the individual item page. (Be sure to refresh or reload the page to view the most up-to-date information.)
Regards,
eBay
EDIT; Ebay confirmed today that this is a fake email
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vangirl_2

2ND EDIT; Am confused now, ebay have emailed again (i sent them a copy of this email 8 times in total as they kept sending irrelevant auto responses) this time it says it is a proper email from them. I click on the link to my item as it says but there is no record of a retracted bit. So am now non the wiser, still dont know if its fake or not!

soolin

It doesn't look fake TBH as it expects you to log in properly and securely. I get a lot of them when ebay have removed a user and they have then removed their bid. Ebay are like paypal they tell you everything is fake as they are a bit too lazy to check them out or know what they are doing.

dawsey2k9

I am a registered eBay and PayPal user and I don't receive them but my son does lol!