I almost fell for what I am sure is an eBay scam today. Here's what you need to watch out for.....
I received an email saying that I was going to receive a strike because I had not paid for an eBay item I had won on auction. The email included a link to the item and a link to the requirements for appealing the feedback and warned that my account could be suspended if I did not resolve it.
My first instinct was to click the link to the item. I was thinking, maybe somebody hacked my account and ordered something. Then it occurred to me that the link might take me somewhere I didn't want to go so I escaped out. Then I went to a different computer and logged into my eBay account. No messages from eBay. No won auctions with payment required. I searched for the item number provided in the bogus email. It doesn't exist.
If you get an email saying you're gonna get dinged for not paying for a purchase, don't follow the link. Go to your eBay account and make sure all is right there.
Peace,
James
Thanks for the Alert. I feel safer to always handle my Ebay business directly from the ebay site on the browser rather then to respond to a possible fraudulent fisher email that could direct me to as you stated a place I didn't want to go Good call and a good save !
I generally never just click on the link in an email from anyone asking for info or telling me my account has a problem, etc. I always open a browser and go to the site directly to verify if the email is authentic. More often than not, it's bogus. You gotta be careful out there!
Bill, tgo
You may want to forward the email to ebay. Check the site, but I think it's scam @ ebay.com
In my expereince, most sites use spoof@ for forwarding suspected bogus emails, as in spoof @ ebay.com
Bill, tgo
Your right; I just checked and it is indeed spoof @ ebay.com
source (http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial/)
(Message edited by davehouck on May 25, 2010)
A couple of years back I stupidly followed a link email to ebay which was a spoof of a genuine item for sale on Ebay. A few days later I found that I couldn't get into my ebay account and someone had changed the password and listed a car for sale on my ebay site.
A police officer friend of mine advised me to report it to the police as this was classed as identity fraud.
I did and also contacted Ebay who I have to say, were very slow and lax in dealing with it. Even sent me numerous reset emails To my Ebay messages account ... DUH...!!!
I only got their messages because i had my account set to forward messages to my regular email account. Unfortunately the hacker had beaten me to the message every time and changed the password.
After about a month they sorted it out, removed the fake advert details, bad feedback from sale of car etc etc.
Since then it's been fine.
I was pretty annoyed with myself that I followed a link to Ebay as I'm usually very good at spotting fakes and usually only log into sites directly via the browser and not via a link from an email.
What made me suspicious was that usually I always get my login accounts right first time but logging in via the link I had to type my pwd in a few times. So at the time I was suspicious.
Jazzyvee
Thanks for posting that Jazzyvee; sharing these first hand experiences helps all of us.