magic79
Enlightened
If you have been on eBay for a while, you have undoubtedly received fraudulent emails that want you to log in to a false site so they can harvest your password. Most are easy to spot.
I got one today that I had never seen before, and I got bitten! Fortunatly, I realized this quickly and changed my password.
The email is one of the "Question from member" emails. Of course, they have ripped off the HTML so it looks real...very real!
The email asked "Do you take PayPal?" My first reaction was "Of course you moron, can't you read my listing?", and with my attention diverted, I clicked "Reply". It had me log in, then immediatly went to the real eBay and came up "Item not found".
I started catching on at this point; closed all browsers; reopened, logged into the real eBay, and changed my password.
When I went back to the email, I found that hovering over the links revealed that ALL the links went to the same site: a spoof address!
If you get this email TRASH IT right away! If you have received it and tried to respond...go to the real site and change you password immediatly.
[EDIT] I just got a response from eBay that it is a fraudulent email. They reminded me, and I'll remind you, EVERY email you receive from eBay is echoed in your message folder in "My eBay". So, you can always go there to see if an email you received is real or fake.
Good luck! There are some real a$$es out there.
I got one today that I had never seen before, and I got bitten! Fortunatly, I realized this quickly and changed my password.
The email is one of the "Question from member" emails. Of course, they have ripped off the HTML so it looks real...very real!
The email asked "Do you take PayPal?" My first reaction was "Of course you moron, can't you read my listing?", and with my attention diverted, I clicked "Reply". It had me log in, then immediatly went to the real eBay and came up "Item not found".
I started catching on at this point; closed all browsers; reopened, logged into the real eBay, and changed my password.
When I went back to the email, I found that hovering over the links revealed that ALL the links went to the same site: a spoof address!
If you get this email TRASH IT right away! If you have received it and tried to respond...go to the real site and change you password immediatly.
[EDIT] I just got a response from eBay that it is a fraudulent email. They reminded me, and I'll remind you, EVERY email you receive from eBay is echoed in your message folder in "My eBay". So, you can always go there to see if an email you received is real or fake.
Good luck! There are some real a$$es out there.
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