Got an e-mail today, supposedly a message from a member of ebay, and the e-mail address seems genuine, and the member does exist…. but what confused me was that i don’t actually have an ebay account!
The message confused me even more, as apparently they bought an item off me, paid me but i haven’t delivered it, and apparently they’re threatening to call the police?! Only thing i can think of is the wrong e-mail address on some guys profile, but i can’t contact ebay about it as you have to be a member!
By: T5 - 2nd November 2005 at 11:44
My advice is just to ignore it as well. I wouldn’t even take the time to respond, explaining that if this email is genuine, then it is a mistake.
I had an email last year from what was supposedly eBay and it told me that eBay was updating its records (!!) so it requested my user names and passwords for both that and PayPal. Stupid me happily sent the information back via email.
A couple of minutes later, I realised my mistake and quickly changed all the passwords.
By: Rlangham - 2nd November 2005 at 10:01
I’ve had it another two times, exactly the same one! I’ve clicked on ‘spam’ on my yahoo mail so i shouldn’t get any from that e-mail address any more
By: SOC - 2nd November 2005 at 02:02
Well this is funny, I just got one in my inbox! Stupid spammers! The funny part is the weblink actually goes here: hxxps://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn (DO NOT CLICK ON THAT DUH). Just like Deano said, the actual address shows up in the status bar at the bottom of your screen.
eBay Safeharbor Department Notice
Fraud Alert ID : 00626654
Dear eBay member,
You have received this email because you or someone else had used your identity to make false purchases on eBay. For security reasons, we are required to open an investigation on this matter. We treat online fraud seriously and all cases which cannot be resolved between eBay and the other involved party are forwarded for further investigations to the proper authorities. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your personal information against the eBay account registration data we have on file by following the link below.
https://secure.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll?action=verify&id=00626654&user=
Please save this fraud alert id for your reference.
When submitting sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL.
Please Note – If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, we will assume this account is fraudulent and it will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We apreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc.Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification mail sent to this address and can not be replied to.
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By: Rlangham - 28th October 2005 at 13:15
Cheers, i sent it to the fake e mail department and confirmed it wasn’t sent by ebay, cheers guys
By: Deano - 27th October 2005 at 22:58
this applies to everyone who receive emails from eBay & Paypal remembering that eBay & Paypal will only EVER send you emails which state your name at the start
Dean
By: Deano - 27th October 2005 at 22:56
Rlangham
In Internet Explorer make sure you have your status bar showing at the bottom, open up your email of this, place your mouse cursor over the web link they have supplied, if you see .http://www.ebay.co.uk/xxxxxxxxxx then it is probably geniune, if you see .http://32.65.195.45.www.ebay.co.uk/xxxxxxxxxxx where the 32.65.195.45. is a made-up number from me and xxxxxxxxxx would be the rest of the address then it is a hoax and they are after your money, the ip address at the start of the http:// will be the re-route address, as soon as you sign in to it they will have your eBay details had you been a member.
Hope this helps
Dean.
p.s. do not click the links 🙂
By: zouzy86 - 27th October 2005 at 22:54
they work on your IP each puter and person has a number
By: SOC - 27th October 2005 at 22:46
This is just spam. They want you to enter your credit card number or something into a website so they can trick you out of a lot of cash. I get these all the time and I haven’t been arrested yet 😀
By: LFC24 - 27th October 2005 at 18:00
Let them call the Police Rlangham. It’s probably someone playing a prank or an email sent to the wrong person.
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th October 2005 at 15:40
I’ve been having a root round on ebay for you and have come up with this link –
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre/spoof.html
It talks about spoof and phishing – maybe an email to them? – [email]spoof@ebay.co.uk[/email]
Good luck!
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October 27, 2005 at 3:27 pm