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Rest in Peace
United States
2684 Posts |
This evening, I received a message from "member at ebay" with a "Question About Item" from a potential buyer. The message didn't look right - it didn't have my name nor username in the text, the header looked too short for ebay, and the question asked how much was shipping. All my sales auctions are very specific about shipping means and costs. Of course, all the right logos and formats were there. I could not identify the message sender origin from the expanded header beyond Comcast Canada, but the language of the message indicated someone whose first language is not English/American. And of course, there were hyperlinks upon which I could click to respond. I clicked on one and Firefox, as I suspected it would popped up a window saying the URL might be deceiving. So, I went to My ebay, clicked onto my messages and the message was not there. What a surprise. I suspect if I had followed through with the response links, I would have been asked to sign in with my username and password. However, being the cynical, clever, and intelligent person I am, I let it go.  Normally if I had the time, I would have clicked onto it and given a rather nasty username and password letting any recipient obtain a rather graphic image of what I thought about his little fraudulent scheme. I presume the username used was also spoofed. Fred |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1703 Posts |
Thanks Fred,
That's one I have not seen yet. If these people put half the effort into doing something legitimate as they do as con artists they probably would have a successfull business.
Terry
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
655 Posts |
I've had those also. I just delete them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
That is the first one I have heard of. Thanks for the information, I will definately be on the look out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1083 Posts |
Fred, that's a new one to me. I keep getting these Message from Buyers that claim I haven't sent their item and they are going to call the police and report me to ebay. Of course the item is not anything I have ever sold. The scam here is to try and get an honest person to respond with their log on info to try to correct what has to be a big mistake. I would like to put all these scammers in a slow, leaky boat to China! |
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Rest in Peace
 United States
2684 Posts |
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Fred, that's a new one to me. I keep getting these Message from Buyers that claim I haven't sent their item and they are going to call the police and report me to ebay. Of course the item is not anything I have ever sold. The scam here is to try and get an honest person to respond with their log on info to try to correct what has to be a big mistake. I would like to put all these scammers in a slow, leaky boat to China!
The scammers keep coming up with new fraud schemes; it'll never end, but all we can do is continued public education. I collect the first of each scam I receive and put it in my Fraud File, dump those which follow. I also receive a half dozen or so per week fraudulent "disputed item" messages purportedly through the ebay message system. I suspect the fraudsters nail most of their victims the first week or two, then after the word gets out and their effectiveness tapers off, think of something else which will enable them to obtain users' usernames and passwords. I would have no problem putting them on a slow, leaky boat to China, but only if I can make the holes with a good ol' M2 .50 cal MG with them in it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
830 Posts |
I've received several of those recently. My best advice: check your official ebay messages in "My ebay" before ever responding to any ebay related e-mails, whether they look okay or not. If the e-mail doesn't show up in your messages, report it to Spoof@ebay.com. Also use ONLY ebay's response system contained in the official message from "My Messages" rather than responding directly from the e-mail. |
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Valued Member
United States
344 Posts |
Fred, Are you going to file a complaint ? It appears that from what I have read is it takes atleast 50 complaints before they really begin to go after some types of crimes. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). http://www.ic3.gov/about/Also anyone can help by providing the info to Norton! Norton has PRN the Phish Report Network which seems takes the info investigates and when everyone gets updates to the software it helps equip against these type threats. http://www.symantec.com/about/news/...=20060501_01Edited by mishap-coins
01/21/2007 12:25 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1360 Posts |
Huh, how about that? I received the exact same email. They only made one little, itty-bitty mistake. I don't sell on ebay. In fact, I don't sell at all! What idiots. |
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Valued Member
Philippines
52 Posts |
those emails were supposed to be considered Spams, I wonder how it got into the inbox?
thanks Fred for that info, I will be wary of that:)
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New Member
United States
40 Posts |
I have had phishing emails posed as ebay messages as well (though not recently)... If you think they are phishing for your username/password, you should report to ebay... forward entire message or copy "header" (get header with right click -> properties -> details). |
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Rest in Peace
United States
2684 Posts |
That was one of my first clues that the message was phony: the scammers did not use my ebay username nor full name as ebay does. My problem now is that my SMTP mail server has spamblocked all PayPal messages whether or not they actually come from PayPal and I'm now concerned it will spamblock all purported and actual messages from ebay. That would be a catastrophe for me. But, that's another battle. Fred |
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Rest in Peace
United States
2684 Posts |
This just in: another spoofed ebay message looking for a "required response". This one is in no way as artistically done as the earlier message. Note the URL to which the hypertext would send someone if they clicked on it (I think .be is Belgium). I clicked on it and an eBay-looking login page came up, but a window also came up on top of it stating that it may be a fraud site along with someone's comment that it is not a fake website. Yeah, right. Here's the complete text of the message, sans html and a single ebay logo: ebay New Unpaid Item Message from 6704gregory: #8246157399 -- response required < http://www.ebay.com/> Dear member, ebay member 6704gregor has left you a message regarding item #8246157399 < http://ntv.be/banners/pupy.html>View the dispute thread to respond. Regards, ebay |
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Posted 01/21/2007 07:52 am
