Ebay Warning... Please Post This Everywhere (Fraud)

[marc weintraub]

Hi Guys,

I wanted to alert everyone to an email that is going around that supposedly comes from the people at Ebay, which it does not. It is obviously a way to get information from unsuspecting individuals, so please beware. It reads as follows:

eBaySupport@ebay.com

msg: Dear eBay User,
Your account was recently logged in excessively within the past 12 hours. Your account has since been temporarily suspended until you click http://mirror.at/ebayerror Click Here and re-activate your account. You have 24 hours to re-activate the account. This is for your safety.

Regards,
eBay Community Action Team.

Incident # : 428741158

Again, nobody can ask for this type of information and it is very dangerous to your identities.

All The Best,

Marc Weintraub

[stew]

just got the same email this morning and deleted it . all others do the same.

[Jdub]

Marc:

Thanks for the warning. Just in case, why not de-activate that link above just in case somebody mistakenly clicks it. I am sure it will drop a cookie locally and then whoknowswhat.

Thanks again,
John

[Bob's Flat-Six]

I've read posts on a board for the NAWCC ( National watch and clock collectors) That a guy bid on a clock and won the auction (1k+) and the seller had stolen the ID for a legitimate seller with 200+ pos. feedbacks. No clock just posted pic's, So the buyer was out.
This has happened a few times, They will set the auction up as private so you can't contact the buyers if you know what up. A friend has a wed site selling clocks, He's had pic's of his clocks lifted and posted for sale on ebay with no way to contact the buyers.
If you buy through your credit card I think the card would cover the loss.
Be careful

[nick-moss]

I just did a bit of digging on this link

The form leads to a Danish hearing aid site ???!!!

It took me about 10 minutes to find a link on EBay to tell them about this abuse

[old_skul]

IMHO, anyone who uses the Internet would be able to see through such a fraudulent scam. It's just yet another way for marketers to get to you. If you're savvy enough about the internet - sorta like walking around in Vegas - you get a good feel for what's for real and what's not.

[widebody911]

Actually, most people who use the internet are abso-freakin' clueless. It's not a scam to get your email address - it's a scam to get your credit card and PayPal info and go on a spending spree - leaving you holding the bag. The average internet user isn't going to do any sort of verification of the URL. And all of the links at the bottom point to the real ebay site.

There was a good homoglyph scam a year or so ago. A guy registered paypa1.com (numeral one) and was sending "you've got cash" messages to people. He'd set up an indentical copy of the PayPal site, and was harvesting people's ID's and passwords, then cleaning out their accounts.

Even "smart" people can fall for scams. I fell for the VeriSign domain transfer scam last summer; I got a renewel notice from VeriSign to the effect that they were now handing renewals for Network Solutions; I didn't question it and cut them a check. I didn't find out I'd been scammed until I saw a story on /. or some such.

Originally posted by old_skul
IMHO, anyone who uses the Internet would be able to see through such a fraudulent scam. It's just yet another way for marketers to get to you. If you're savvy enough about the internet - sorta like walking around in Vegas - you get a good feel for what's for real and what's not.

[Adam]

That PayPa1 is a nasty one! Clever bastard, though.