WARNING ebay and paypal spoof emails

sinar

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could advise me if this email I have just received from Ebay is genuine. It is from "moreinfo@ebay.com", subject "
MC033 A26 Account Security Notice: Restored Account"

The greeting in the message states my ebay usename and email address.
The content of the message is:

"Your eBay account appears to have been used without your permission to send unsolicited emails to other eBay members, including email offers to sell items outside of eBay. It doesn't appear that your account was used to list or bid on any items.

We've already taken steps to secure your account. Your credit card information is stored on a secure server and cannot be seen by anyone.

***Regaining Control of Your Account***
We need you to take the following steps to regain control of your account:

1. Change the password on your personal email account to verify that it is secure and can't be accessed by anyone other than you.
2. Click the "Forgot your password" link on the eBay sign-in page, and change your password using the instructions provided.
3. Click the "Security Center" link found at the bottom of most eBay pages.
4. Under the Protect Your Account heading, click the "Reporting Account Theft" link. Follow the instructions to finish securing your account."

When I go to ebay and click on "my ebay" my password is no longer valid so I'm guessing the email could actually be from ebay, do you think it is safe to do as the letter suggested? also I'm not sure what they mean when they say " Change the password on your personal email account to verify that it is secure and can't be accessed by anyone other than you" I'm not sure what personal email account they are referring to, is it the one with my ISP (zen)?

I'm quite worried how this could have happened as I don't give my details out to anyone.

Thanks for reading,

Julie

andi_kam

I received an e-mail from:
Peter Gibbs (eedlamad4u@yahoo.com)

Asking me to send my item to:
Address: <img alt="" width="1" border="0" height="5"> (Dr) Aj M Ola
Lautech Ogbomosho Department Of Engineering
Ogbomosho,
Oyo State
23402
Nigeria








but I noticed firstly that the guy who won my bid was from the UK and second that the e-mail address this actually comes from is not paypal.co.uk it is:
verify-customers@accountant.com

Obviously I will not be sending my item to this guy! What a t*****

Just thought I would warn anyone else that may come across this.

andi_kam

Sinar: Regarding the above - I definitely recommend changing your e-mail password and then contacting ebay directly and see if this is the case. Try going to the ebay page (don't click on any links in the e-mail) and actually finding the reset password link from there.

gs08

andi_kam wrote: »

I received an e-mail from:
Peter Gibbs (eedlamad4u@yahoo.com)

Asking me to send my item to:
Address: <img alt="" width="1" border="0" height="5"> (Dr) Aj M Ola
Lautech Ogbomosho Department Of Engineering
Ogbomosho,
Oyo State
23402
Nigeria


but I noticed firstly that the guy who won my bid was from the UK and second that the e-mail address this actually comes from is not paypal.co.uk it is:
verify-customers@accountant.com

Obviously I will not be sending my item to this guy! What a t*****

Just thought I would warn anyone else that may come across this.

My friend had a nokia n95 which he was selling. and he had a very similar email to yours. Also in one of the auctions a person from nigeria bidded over a thousand pounds for a 6230i. I mean you know that no one would pay that. i just think most of them are pulling a fast one.

eyelinerprincess

Had a really obvious one today, sent to spoof:

Dear eBay Member,
This is your official notification from eBay. Your online has expired.
If you want to continue using our service you have to renew your online.
If not, your online will be limited and deleted
To confirm your Account records click on the following link:

http://210.38.96.137/ebay/eBayISAPI/ws/eBayISAPI.htm

Thank you,
Scott R. Shipman, CIPP Senior Counsel, Global Privacy Practices eBay Inc.

soolin

Oh dear, how wonderful having your 'online' suspended. :eek: I bet there will still be people falling for it though.

eyelinerprincess

I'd hope no one would be that stupid, but unfortunately there will be at least one person...

Sent it to spoof and surprise surprise it's a phishing email...

ourtoystore

I was caught out by one of these emails just before Christmas - being innocent to this at the time, it looked like it was from a potential customer asking me a question on one of my products so i clicked on it and made the mistake of logging into what looked like ebay. The first I knew of a problem was when my inbox showed 15 listings in the USA for plasma and lcd televisions - they had gone up within 30 minutes of me clicking on the link. I contacted ebay and they were very helpful - they cancelled the listings for me and put my account on hold and credited back the listing fees. I had to follow instructions on creating a new password and re-activating my account. I am certainly not a computer expert but they explained how to recognise one of these spoof emails - just move the mouse over the link or image without clicking your mouse button and the location will show up as text on your screen - i now easily recognise these emails and just delete them - we get at least 3 or 4 a day that our spam filter does not spot. I hope that this helps - please be gentle with me as this is my first post

HannaB

This nice person has won the auction for my PSP:

Good day,

I Just want to inform you that the payment has been Transfer just right now with my paypal account and i have transfer the total funds of £242.00 plus £100 for the shipping and package of VIA ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR'' PLease kindly make sure you post this item with VIA ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR'''because i want fast shipment for this item,next week is my son birthday and i want to buy this item for my son BIRTHDAY present gift, he is doing his project in west african (NIGERIA)and i believe paypal have send you my payment confirm reciept to your paypal link mail, please can you help me post this item right away...and don't for get to send paypal the shipping tracking number for shipping confirmation so that they can credited your paypal account with the total money....

Here is my son shipping address below:

Mr John Sam
Plot 21,Awolowo Way,
Ikeja Lagos,
Nigeria.
23401.

Hope to hear from you very fast today..
Kristan Christan

But what if I want to contact him very-fast tomorrow?

daymo77

i have been so bloody stupid and have fallen for the exact email as above from nigeria i have posted it and everything? where does that leave me if anywhere?