EBAY EMAIL SCAM - Be Careful

**Amy**

I received an email from "ebay" this morning basically saying they tried to take money from my bank account to pay for my invoice and it didnt happen.

Title: [TKO] : your (eBay) account could be suspended.

From: [EMAIL="aw-confirm@ebay.co.uk"]aw-confirm@ebay.co.uk[/EMAIL]

The email looks very good, like an ebay one, and it asks you to check your details.

You click on the link and it takes you to what looks like the ebay homepage for you to sign into your account.

DO NOT DO IT!!

If you are not sure, open up a seperate internet browser and log into your ebay account that way. I went into mine and there was nothing about not being able to take any money from my account.

I have reported it to ebay.

EDIT - Ebay have come back to me and it is DEFINITELY a scam email.


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newsgroup_monkey

I'm not sure about eBay, but I know that Paypal say that the email should ALWAYS be addressed to you (i.e. Dear Newsgroup Monkey)

If it says "Dear User" then it's not genuine

Luckystepho

As a rule I make a point of ignoring any email that requires you to click on a link in the email; the genuine ones tell you to log into your account from the home page.
I get loads, mainly from supposedly from banks I don't even have an account with!

Runnybabbit

OMG - I'm just giving this a 'bump' cos I think I may have received one - just off to check it now.

jacnorm

I have had these from paypal aswell as banks I always delete them.