Dogey eBay e-mail!

dceire

Just recived an e-mail that appears to be from ebay that reads:

Dear eBay member,

We regret to inform you that your ebay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information.
To resolve this problim please visit the link below and re-enter your account information.

<Link>

If your problims could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 24hrs, after this period your account will be terminated.

It appears to have all the official ebay insignia & the link is to a sign in page on ebays site but when I log in it asks me to confirm my details by giving my Credit Card number, expiry date, security code and pin no.(wtf). There is no chance in hell of them getting my pin, this along with the fact that they address me by 'Dear eBay Member' make me very suspicious that this could be a very elaborate scam.

Has anyone else heard of or had any experience of this?

tman

stupid comment

zuma

I hope you didnt do as "tman" said above!!!

Steffano2002

eBay/PayPal (same company) rarely, if ever, e-mail their customers/members.

If they do, they will not start their e-mail with "Dear eBay member," or "Dear PayPal member" so as soon as you see an e-mail with such a greeting you have 2 choices:

- Delete
- Report to eBay/PayPal then delete

NEVER click on any links within these e-mails. They will bring you to fake websites where you will be asked your UserName and Password and/or Credit Card details.

You've been warned dceire!

Steffano2002

tman wrote:

give them your credit card details and let us know how you get on.
i'm interested to see how this pans out

Careful tman,

Some people might not understand that you are being sarcastic and end up giving their Credit Card details! Dceire nearly did (apparently) and only stopped when he saw they were asking for his PIN!

damalo

Good advice,

Best things to do is manually log on as you would usually. If there needs to be such certain action there will be plenty of warnings in the members area. If not then you know you've had a faker.

dceire

Had a fair idea it was fake but it could easily catch you if you hadn,t got your withs about you. I've reported it to ebay anyway.

Steffano2002 wrote:

eBay/PayPal (same company) rarely, if ever, e-mail their customers/members.

If they do, they will not start their e-mail with "Dear eBay member," or "Dear PayPal member" so as soon as you see an e-mail with such a greeting you have 2 choices:

- Delete
- Report to eBay/PayPal then delete

NEVER click on any links within these e-mails. They will bring you to fake websites where you will be asked your UserName and Password and/or Credit Card details.

You've been warned dceire!

freakmagnet

http://www.domainavenue.com/scam_paypal_or_ebay_emails.htm

Lord Nikon

i got the same Email too, something I noticed though. In the mail there is a link(to enter your details), when the page opens, there is a little line of text which links directly to the official ebay.com, but if you look closely, that line of text isn't exactly over the address bar, underneath it is another address, probably the fake address which links to the fake site. It's niftly enough, but the address bar mistake is a dead giveaway.

I've added pics of the original mail pic (a) and what it links to in pic (b). Note the misalligned address in the address bar, in pic (b).

Pic (a)


Pic (b)

aidan_dunne

Ignore it and delete it straightaway, and that goes for any similar e-mails you may get. They're all just "phishing" e-mails, that's all. I get these (and similar ones from banks and things) every now and again myself.......... yet I don't even have an eBay account, so there you go!

LundiMardi

eBay will NEVER ask you to 'verify' details such as these.

cormie

Jay is us, I'd say allot of folks will be caught out with that one :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE

I do remember reading somewhere in ebays policy, that they will never ask for credit card details over email, so the person who set this up most likely knew this, and therefore made it more genuine.

I really hate scams like this, because people like my parents who are by no means stupid, would be very susceptible to things like this, simply because they dont have half a clue what theyre doing on the computer and if they are asked to do something like this, they will.

matt-dublin

ebay do not ever request credit card details...

they use third party companies for payment purposes!
ie paypal etc etc

Splinter

got this email too. figured twas just a scam, thank god never listened to it

ixoy

I got that one too yesterday. Credit where credit's due - it's the slickest phishing email that I've yet seen.

I clicked on the link out of curiosity. Now I'm running FireFox and didn't get that misaligned e-mail address. Instead I was directed to a site with a URL of the form: http://secure-login-ebay.com .... which could easily fool people (eBay on their site say their login addresses take the form http://login.security.ebay.com - the obvious thing using subdomains unlike the scam).

It's also somewhat plausible because it cleverly plays on other phishing scams, although it wouldn't seem too likely given a bit of thought that eBay would request this for customers who don't have a CC.

I'm somewhat tempted to go in and enter a random username and password. I assume it will automatically validate any username/password and take you straight to where you have to enter credit card details. Be curious if I'm right..

GoneShootin

Ebay use an ALERT system when you login to your account. If you have a system wide issue to resolve, you will see it listed as an ALERT.

Nukem

Ya got the same e-mail a few days back and just threw it out. People rarely if ever ask for details threw e-mails as its too iffy. Delete Delete Delete


Nukem

Lord Nikon

The thing I always say to myself is, why would ebay or paypal or my bank ask for my details, they have them already.

jonski

Got this one awhile ago myself , when I hovered over the link the address shown at the bottom was in the form of **.***.**.*** . Funny thing is , I don't have an ebay a/c

CyberGhost

Get a spoof stick version 1.03(the later ones are crappy design, really annoying toolbar!) extension for firefox
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=258&pid=386&mode=threaded&show=&st=&

if tells you if you are on a spoofed website

also when you get such emails, check their source, if it's originated from something suspicious, delete! I usually reported them, but I don't think they really care