Carole Fox on thu 13 jul 06
I received a scam / phishing email today of a type that I had not seen
before, so I thought I'd share with the group for your awareness.
The email looked like an ebay message in the format that ebay uses when
allowing a potential buyer to ask for more information from the seller.
It was complete with all the ebay logos and disclaimers. No obvious
mistakes in grammar or spelling as are common in a lot of scams.
Basically, the content stated that a potential buyer wanted to know if an
item from an expired ebay listing was still available. It contained a
link for responding (supposedly via ebay), which caused a phony ebay login
screen to display. I presume that the scammer wants the recipient to
enter their ebay login info, which the scammer then steals for his own use.
If you are technically inclined, you can look at the internet headers on
such a message and see that it did not come from ebay. If not, you may
see other clues - such as, the item listing number does not match any eaby
listing that you created, or as in my case, the email was sent to an email
address that I never use for ebay.
Forewarned is forearmed!
Carole Fox
Dayton, OH
waiting for my bisque load to finish
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on thu 13 jul 06
Hi Carol,
Yes, there are various versions of this, ( and it
is a scam of course, to try and lure you into
clicking on a link of some kind, where you end up
with some Trojan or key-stroke-counter or whatever
being installed in your system, ) where sometimes
it is a complaint from 'someone' about how come
their item has not arrived yet, or how they sent
the money and never got the item, or the item
arrived damaged or other than what they bid on, or
other ruses...
I just delete them...I get maybe one of these a
day, in one version or another.
If one IS actively selling on e-bay, then of
course actual questions from buyers or potential
buyers are normal.
I have not sold anything on e-bay for some while
now, and when I was, it was never the kinds of
items these 'phishers' are asking about or
referencing anyway.
So yes...beware!
...and just delete them...
One can forward these things to e-bay if one
wants, to recieve e-bays take on them, by
forwarding them to -
spoof@ebay.com
Same with PayPal for that matter, one just
forwards the 'phish' to -
spoof@paypal.com
Best wishes,
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carole Fox"
> I received a scam / phishing email today of a
type that I had not seen
> before, so I thought I'd share with the group
for your awareness.
>
> The email looked like an ebay message in the
format that ebay uses when
> allowing a potential buyer to ask for more
information from the seller.
> It was complete with all the ebay logos and
disclaimers. No obvious
> mistakes in grammar or spelling as are common in
a lot of scams.
> Basically, the content stated that a potential
buyer wanted to know if an
> item from an expired ebay listing was still
available. It contained a
> link for responding (supposedly via ebay), which
caused a phony ebay login
> screen to display. I presume that the scammer
wants the recipient to
> enter their ebay login info, which the scammer
then steals for his own use.
>
> If you are technically inclined, you can look at
the internet headers on
> such a message and see that it did not come from
ebay. If not, you may
> see other clues - such as, the item listing
number does not match any eaby
> listing that you created, or as in my case, the
email was sent to an email
> address that I never use for ebay.
>
> Forewarned is forearmed!
>
> Carole Fox
> Dayton, OH
> waiting for my bisque load to finish
Warren Heintz on thu 13 jul 06
It must be a blanket posting to addresses from clayart. I personally have never had anything to do with e bay or paypal and I recieve the same sort of e mails. They get deleted.
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote: Hi Carol,
Yes, there are various versions of this, ( and it
is a scam of course, to try and lure you into
clicking on a link of some kind, where you end up
with some Trojan or key-stroke-counter or whatever
being installed in your system, ) where sometimes
it is a complaint from 'someone' about how come
their item has not arrived yet, or how they sent
the money and never got the item, or the item
arrived damaged or other than what they bid on, or
other ruses...
I just delete them...I get maybe one of these a
day, in one version or another.
If one IS actively selling on e-bay, then of
course actual questions from buyers or potential
buyers are normal.
I have not sold anything on e-bay for some while
now, and when I was, it was never the kinds of
items these 'phishers' are asking about or
referencing anyway.
So yes...beware!
...and just delete them...
One can forward these things to e-bay if one
wants, to recieve e-bays take on them, by
forwarding them to -
spoof@ebay.com
Same with PayPal for that matter, one just
forwards the 'phish' to -
spoof@paypal.com
Best wishes,
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carole Fox"
> I received a scam / phishing email today of a
type that I had not seen
> before, so I thought I'd share with the group
for your awareness.
>
> The email looked like an ebay message in the
format that ebay uses when
> allowing a potential buyer to ask for more
information from the seller.
> It was complete with all the ebay logos and
disclaimers. No obvious
> mistakes in grammar or spelling as are common in
a lot of scams.
> Basically, the content stated that a potential
buyer wanted to know if an
> item from an expired ebay listing was still
available. It contained a
> link for responding (supposedly via ebay), which
caused a phony ebay login
> screen to display. I presume that the scammer
wants the recipient to
> enter their ebay login info, which the scammer
then steals for his own use.
>
> If you are technically inclined, you can look at
the internet headers on
> such a message and see that it did not come from
ebay. If not, you may
> see other clues - such as, the item listing
number does not match any eaby
> listing that you created, or as in my case, the
email was sent to an email
> address that I never use for ebay.
>
> Forewarned is forearmed!
>
> Carole Fox
> Dayton, OH
> waiting for my bisque load to finish
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