New eBay scam

[Guest]

For those of you who trade on ebay, I alert you to a new (to me) scam which came to my attention today.

I received a 'Question from ebay member' email asking about shipping charges to NYC. Normally I may have taken this at face value. However, my current ebay items are for UK shipping only, and are clearly marked so. Alarms bells rang!

The respond button in the email takes you to a clone of the ebay security login page, which then, I guess, harvests your security details for future evil means.

These pages appear to be part of a Korean network, although the actual owners could be anywhere on the planet.

Be aware. It's the best mockup I've seen yet.

[Robert Allen]

Graham, thanks for posting this. I hadn't thought of scamming info quite this way and it might have gotten me. I'll have to pay more attention to the emails I get when auctions complete as well.

[Larry Barnowsky]

It's a form of "Pfishing" which asks for passwords, account #s etc. They are a nuisance and a method for identitiy theft as well depleting your account. Remember Ebay or Paypal will never ask for account info to be filled in via email.

[Randy DiMarco]

Also, never go to one of these sites by clicking a link in an email. Open your browser and type in the main page address of whatever website manually.

[Richard Kaufman]

I just got a PayPal message saying I bought a pair of sneakers and paid for it.
If I wanted to dispute the PayPal charge, then I should click "here."
Of course it was a scam!
Bastards.

[Robert Allen]

Too bad there aren't internet bounty hunters who would track these guys down across international borders and just beat them with a 2 x 4 for a while. That would most certainly put a stop to the problem.

[Steve Mills]

There's a very well done scam welcoming you as a Power Seller.

One of the best I've seen.

sam

[Guest]

Originally posted by Robert Allen:
Too bad there aren't internet bounty hunters who would track these guys down across international borders and just beat them with a 2 x 4 for a while. That would most certainly put a stop to the problem.

I hear your Robert. You can't beat corrective therapy, old school.

[Scott Fridinger]

I love when these guys send me this junk. Not that I love or think they should do it. When I get the "login screen" I type some horrible name like kissmy*** and some obscene password. They of course collect that data. Then I get a credit card screen. If you do go to a website before you login, try some fake username and password. If you get in, it is fraudulent.

[Kevin Connolly]

I figured out the best way to handle ANY kind email from Ebay is just to delete. If it's real, it will be in "My Ebay". Emails from Ebay, buyers and sellers will show up there. Short and sweet. :D

[John Bodine]

Please forward all phishing scams to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com. eBay and PayPal work very closely with many ISP's and as a result, when we receive these spoof emails the ISP's block mail from those addresses. This in turn forces the scammers to find new servers from which to unleash their trouble.

Every address we can stop helps.

John Bodine

[Guest]

I am pretty internet savvy but I got caught with that "power seller" scam. Within 2 minutes I could not get in to my ebay account, THEY were in it. Never use the same passwords for banking and money that you use for general stuff.

[Chris Aguilar]

Two very easy ways to suss out a paypal/ebay phishing scam.

I believe reading that neither of those two companies (well one big company really) will e-mail you without using your real name (as they have it) as the greeting of the e-mail.

No real name (i.e. Dear Paypal member) means it's very likely a scam.

One can simply hover one's mouse over the links in the e-mail to see if they're truly from e-bay or not. Sometimes scammers will mix in a few generic real links, but the scam link will still be prominent. You see even one non paypal/ebay link, do as suggested previously and forward off that message to spoof@paypal.com or spoof at ebay.com.

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[Bill Palmer]

Look for misspelled words. I have had a couple of e-mails that started:

Honorable eBay Costumer:

Another thing is that sometimes they forget to put in one of the HTML tags that cues the e-mail program to read it as HTML. Then you get some really funny looking messages.

I forwad them all to eBay.