ebay WARNING

littlemissteapot_2

thanks for the tip!! whenevr i get emails through from ebay I always send them on to [EMAIL="spoof@paypal"]spoof@paypal[/EMAIL] or [EMAIL="spoof@ebay"]spoof@ebay[/EMAIL] & wait for there response!

And ignore rude people who just nit pick! i read it fine!!

connacher

thanks all big hugs xxx

MARTINS_DOLL

I've just been sent another spoof email

from...

contact @ extra ebay ....... etc

This is the 5th one I've received from these scammers since the beginining of this year!
It has been confirmed by ebay that these emails are NOT from them.

I've reported all of them to ebay spoof, so I don't know why they are still arriving...

PLEASE BE AWARE OF THESE SPOOF EMAILS

GENUINE EMAILS FROM EBAY WILL ALWAYS HAVE YOUR REAL NAME AT THE TOP THE EMAIL...
AS WELL AS YOUR USERNAME.

redflash7

Thanks

greeneye

umm
Want it now adds don't display either email addresses or even ebay Id's.
To contact a want it now poster all you get to do is enter an item number for an item that you have listed on ebay and ebay passes that info to the anonymous want it now poster.
I would be alarmed if ebay's want it now system had been hacked.

Can you confirm that the email your father recieved actually referred to a specific want it now item he had posted or was it simply an email that stated something along the lines of "A want it now add you have posted has been responded to please log in to see this response" - with no specific mention of the actual want it now item concerned ??

RFW

The Emails do go out to loads of different addresses. Some people however do have email addresses specifically for Ebay and Paypal, with those names in the address/ Obviously these are picked up easier by the scammers, so its good advice not to have them. I've also found that using initials without vowels for email addresses helps to cut out a fair amount of spam in general (that said you still get, whatever you do).

As for forwarding the spoofs, they do get looked into, haing spoken to someone at Ebay, they tend to congregate the ones they get and try and target the multiple sender ones, so the more you forward the more they look at. So do keep forwarding them, don't just think because they keep coming they aren't worth forwarding, quite the reverse is true.

Unless my security has tightened the receipt, I do think they have gone down in the last year. Ebay and Paypal do take them seriously and it is in their interests to stop them as much as possible so do always forward them.

ianonline

RFW wrote: »

I've also found that using initials without vowels for email addresses helps to cut out a fair amount of spam in general (that said you still get, whatever you do).

Sorry, I don't understand

Ian :cool:

soolin

echojc wrote: »

this is really alarming, I wonder if incidents like this were already reported to eBay...

It is not alarming at all..ebay and paypal are not even one of the worst for attracting phishing mails. As long as you know and understand what a phishing mail is then you can't ever be fooled..honestly. Look at the sticky thread on here about spoofs and scams.

We just need to concentrate and understand what we should trust in our inbox and what we should not.

RFW

ianonline wrote: »

Sorry, I don't understand

Ian :cool:

[EMAIL="ian@emailprovider.com"]ian@emailprovider.com[/EMAIL] is more likely to be spammed than [EMAIL="plmjgd1789@emailprovider.com"]plmjgd1789@emailprovider.com[/EMAIL], the spam bots tend to search for common names and initials it is in no way a fool proof plan but does stop it a bit!.

Email addresses such as [EMAIL="ebaypayment@email.com"]ebaypayment@email.com[/EMAIL], [EMAIL="paypalme@email.com"]paypalme@email.com[/EMAIL], etc are asking for spoof emails, so using them as many do for their Ebay stuff makes it easier for the scammers.

soolin

My main ebay account attracts very little spam and that is a name..two others are names (sort of) and attract a small amount of basic spam. A random account that I have which is not a name gets so much spam that I actually had to stop using the account for a while as it was getting hit upwards of 50 times a day..I believe that was due to a disgruntled buyer placing the email address somewhere though.

spam bots send millions of email a day using all permentations of letters and numbers and it is just luck as to whether they hit a real accounts or not. I get bank phishing mails for accounts I do not have and ebay/paypal spoofs to my non ebay emails addresses.

According to the news yesterday though spam mail is on the decrease as spam filters now are getting more sophisticated and even basic programmes can filter out virtually all of it. I had noticed that my basic free Hotmail accounts have a very low failure rate. Out of interest i went and checked a random account and have 1 real email from a company that I am on the mailing list of, and 73 junk mails in my junk folder from the past 5 days since I last emptied it.