Ebay OT

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Dutchie42

Cathlete
I have been receiving emails lately from ebay about suspending my account. However, I had never even been to ebay before, never registered and I don't have an ebay account.

After receiving 3 of those emails again today I decided to send them an email to let them know. But I have to register to be able to contact them. How weird is that? I don't want to register, but I don't want the emails either. Anyone any advice?
Dutchie
 
They are probaly not from ebay just someone trying to get info to get into your banking account.Don't answer them this happens alot and needs to reported to them.but I don't see how they got your email if you haven't registered.
 
I have gotten three of those notices this week too! And I have never registered with ebay or used it at all! I think it must be another scam.
 
That is spoof e-mail sent by someone who wants your personal information so he/she can use it for identity theft. If I were you, I'd report them to e-bay.

I've been getting e-mails of this sort from Citibank Visa. I don't have one of those, so I went to the Citibank web site, and sure enough they had a prominent link about fraudulent e-mails. I promptly sent them a copy of the e-mail I got.

Pinky
 
I also received an email like this this week, apparently from paypal but it was actually a spoof, asking me to acknowledge that I had added a certain "[email protected]" to my paypal account. I think not! I contacted paypal and reported this as a spoof email, which they confirmed.

The thing to do if you already have accounts with paypal and ebay is report to them these emails as spoofs, and delete the emails from your inboxes as Pinky says. If you don't have accounts, just delete them instantly, do not open any attachments and do not reply to them or give them any personal information whatsoever.

Whenever in doubt: delete an odd-looking or odd-sounding email, never open their attachments. Stay safe.


Clare
 
Me too!! Me too!! I don't even have an account with ebay. The message sure looks like it comes from ebay with their logo and everything.
I wasn't someone to mess around with this morning, so I stupidly hit the reply button and mentioned I don't have an account and never will.
(white lie but....)
I should have just deleted and but a blocker on it..x( Now the idiots know there is a real person the addy they have. Grrr.
 
I went an dug the message out of my trash can and but a blocker on their address. Do you suppose if I change my email address everything will be okay? I should not have replied to the dumb message.
Did they need the info from the ebay registration form? Glad I didn't fill that in. Or do they already have access to your info just by you hitting the reply button and telling them to bug off?
 
I just received my second one of these e-mails. I contacted ebay after the first one and they responded that it was spoof mail. They advised to forward any questionable ebay email's to [email protected] and do not click on any links provided within the message. HTH :)

JJ
 
I just sometimes cannot believe the things people do to get access to your info! And theses idiots that create viruses. Why in the world can't they use their knowledge for something else! Keep those Anitvirus programs updated. And check on Windows update monthly for updates on your operating systems. And never open attachments from someone you don't know....be safe...:)...Carole
 
Just forward the letter to :

[email protected]

They will check the authenticity of any email that you get that doesn't look real. Sometimes it really does look authentic. But you will get a reply from Ebay about it and this way they can see where this is coming from.

Just click and forward the whole email to them at the address I wrote above. HTH
 
I had two of those messages today, too, and have received several from Pay Pal in the past month or so. I figured it might be a scam, but if it wasn't, I still didn't see the point of updating my information unless and until I wanted to bid or sell. I just deleted them.
 
That is funny that you should mention this. I just checked my e mail and I had two notice's. I have never delt with e bay myself so was fixing to ask DH what he thought it was. I guess I will leave it for now and let him look at it. I bet he has gotten the same thing.
DIane Sue
 
I forwarded the email I received to [email protected] and received a reply that it was indeed not sent by them. I wonder how they got my email address, because the one they used I only use for personal emails. I always use a different (and shorter) one to register at a very few sites like this one.
Dutchie
 
Spoof emails are getting really bad. I get them on a weekly basis and not just someone claiming to be from Ebay. So be very careful about all emails that you question. Chances are that it is someone trying to gain access to your credit card and bank accounts.
 
I received e-mails like that last week from both Ebay and Paypal. Paypal also requests that you forward messages that appear to be from them to [email protected] and promptly delete them.

A key to recognizing the spoofs is if they address you generically. Like "To valued Ebay member" instead of addressing you by your name.

-Diane
 
I have several e-mail addresses, each created for a purpose.

For some reason, I don't get spoof e-mail in the account I created for all online transactions. Aside from the usual receipts and shipping confirmations, I do get lots of sales ads from my favorite sites and coupon codes every now and then.

I DO get spoof e-mail in the account I created solely for E-bay. So I know there are a lot of lowlives scouting those waters for easy prey.

I get a lot of spam in the e-mail that I give only to friends and family. I think this is because some of my friends send me forwarded messages, which they also send to their other friends at the same time. So my very personal e-mail address gets picked up somewhere by spammers, as these fwds are bounced around in the web.

Pinky
 
I have got a lot of these type of emails lately. I even got an email explaining why I'm getting so many of these bogus things:

Pam

"Phishing" Attacks Can Be Painful
A recent report on "Phishing" -- the increasingly bogus attempt by Internet fraudsters to obtain consumer passwords, credit card information and other personal data -- says U.S. banks and credit card issuers lost an estimated $1.2 billion last year.

Moreover, an estimated 57 million American received a phished e-mail during that time, according to the study conducted by Gartner, Inc., with 76% of the attacks coming in the last six months.

Recent studies by Message Labs and The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) corroborate the Gartner research. Message Labs reported 337,050 phished e-mails across its network in January of 2004 alone, according to a recent article published on Internetnews.com. APWG believes the numbers may actually be in the hundreds of millions of "phished" e-mails per month.

Why is phishing so prevalent? Because it is effective. An estimated 19% of U.S adult Internet users were trusting enough to click on an e-mail link phishing for information; 3% reported actually entering sensitive personal or financial information.
 
I've noticed that someone is trying to enter my compter from a backdoor. My antivirus keeps giving me a message about every 10 minutes while I'm on line that reads: "sokets de Trois v1 trogan horse"
Have you noticed that with your computers?
I'm thinking of changing my email addy. Grrrrr
 
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