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I know there are a lot of eBay users on this forum so I wanted to post an example of a spoof e-mail for those who have not seen one. I recieved this one last night. Do not respond to anything via your regular e-mail account. If eBay has an issue with your account they will send a message to you at your “My Ebay” page. Just delete these and move on because responding to these e-mails can make your financial affairs a nightmare. Just thought that i would throw that in here.
I get this one at least once a day along with supposed ones from banks I don’t have accounts and the usual NIgeriam oil scam from a number of locations now.
It’s the old phishing scam again - ebay will never ask for your details like this (they already have them). I think they have an address somewhere where you can forward things like this (they can then trace the people behind them). Certainly never reply or visit the link!
I especially wanted to get the newer eBayers up to speed on this. I was talking to a coworker about this, and as mentioned above, he got one of these and doesn’t even have an eBay account. I just like to get the word out on this kind of stuff whenever I have the chance.
Here’s another one,
you get an e mail from a buyer via the Ebay “Question from member” saying i just paid $2400 into your Paypal account but they have not done, then in a couple of days you get another saying can you re fund me as i made a mistake, they expect you to re fund them without you first checking your Paypal account. they are trying to find somebody daft enough who will fall for it. THERE WILL BE A GENUINE ITEM NUMBER BUT THERE USER I.D. IS FALSE
ANY e mails from Ebay will be displayed in “My Ebay Messages” and checking this is the best way to check any suspicious E Mails, if in any doubt forward to "Spoof@ebay.com or spoof@ebay.co.uk NEVER REPLY TO E-MAILS CLAIMING TO BE FROM EBAY OR PAYPAL
[(-D]Too funny! So this scam is trying to goad someone into verifying their membership information so eBay can “speed up the process” of suspending or terminating their membership?
Oh please, let me help you suspend my ID![D)]
Yikes, these scammers are complete morons! I wonder how successful they have been using that tactic.
i never recieve any of these emails… dont know why i would not and yet some of you report that you get them all the time…i look at ebay every day and dont get junk… i did notice that my wife ,s hotmail account never got any junk of any type until one day she looked at ebay now she gets them all the time… hope this helps peter ps the fella who tuned up my puter put A V G free pop up / junk mail filter into my system
If only one person is stupid enough to fall for this and they have a substantial bank account, the spammers have been paid for their ingeniuty and time.
This reminds me, I haven’t heard from my Nigerian Princess who wants my bank account number so she can hide her fortune from the government by putting it safely into my account. She must have died.
Maybe she’s been reincarnated as an e-Bay or PayPal customer service rep.
It’s amazing that anyone would actually fall for this stuff, but it must happen or else it would all go away. So sad… But then some of the biggest scammers are the sellers and people keep buying stuff on ebay.
I receive dozens of these things just about every day. I figure that by this point in time, anyone stupid enough to reply to any of these phishing expeditions is either brand new to the Internet or is getting precisely what he or she deserves. There’s no way that anyone even remotely well versed (or even casually aware) of all the dangers and scams lurking on the Internet could not be aware of this stuff.
These emails are randomly sent to email adresses. It has nothing to do with whether
or not you visit eBay. It’s like fishing, they throw out the bait and hope someone bites.
I used to get them before I had ever been on eBay.
The bank scam-mails are the same. That’s why poeple get them from banks that they
have never done business with. Dave
I get these every few days along with ads for rolex watches (reel cheep!), Free Rx drugs, and ED products. My junk mail filter gets about 90% of it out of the inbox. If you aren’t sure of the validity of any e-mail, don’t open it!!! It is the reply itself that shows the spammer that they have reached a working e-mail address and you will then be inundated with thousands of them. Many are generated computers that send out a phishing scheme by sending random addresses by the thousands to known ISPs. You can check out info about a lot of these scams at: http://www.snopes.com/
I personally find nothing funny about these things as hundreds of people have been tricked into revealing information to thieves resulting in the loss of major amounts of money and many, many hours of time trying to rectify the situation. This is also why you should never put your e-mail address or Telephone # into an online forum thread as you become easy pickings for those that would steal your identity.
Been going on for years. You will also get these “verification” emails from banks you’ve never done business with, paypal ( whether you have an account or not), etc. My favorites are the ones telling me I’ve PAID through paypal, for something even though I didn’t… Bottom line is keep your whits about you… Remember, nothing is free, if it sounds too good to be true it is, and Ebay, paypal, etc will never include an emailed link to sign on to your account.