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Valued Member
United States
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I got an email from ebay regarding a second chance offer on a 1 oz gold bar. The email mentioned my full name and the ebay ID. I have seen actual second chance offers before and the mail looked completely genuine. But when I tried to open the link, the link did not work. The email asked to reply back if I am interested. Well, I was hooked. The email was very very professional with everything spoofed quiet nicely. And they had my name and ebay ID. How the heck did they get that? Did they hack ebay? So I replied back saying that I am interested. Waiting for response. Will keep you posted. Be on lookout for such email. Beware! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Did you receive the email in your "My Messages" in your ebay account? Or did it only come to your personal email account? A genuine second chance offer will appear in your "My Messages" in your ebay account on an item that you actually placed a bid on. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1200 Posts |
This may be nothing, but... Your computer may have just gotten loaded up with a generous dose who-knows-what when you opened that email and the sender may now have access into or external control of it. It might be a good idea to keep a real close eye on your ebay account activity, your PayPal account activity and the account activity of whatever credit card(s) &/or bank account(s) you have tied in with PayPal. I hope this doesn't turn out to be a new "lifetime worst" nightmare for you. Good luck. Edit: After a few minutes of reconsideration, I realized my gloom+doom scenario above is what may arise out of opening email attachments. I'm not really sure how badly you exposed yourself by opening just an email. Nonetheless, with stuff like this, I don't think there's such a thing as "too paranoid." Edited by Fat Freddy
03/03/2013 12:17 am
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Valued Member
 United States
200 Posts |
It came in my email which is attached to my ebay account. All the ebay messages anyways come to my email account as well as messages section in ebay. I did go to ebay and saw no messages there. I have been on ebay for a long time but even I was confused. Someone who is not that familiar with ebay could fall for this scam. I got the response back from the guy. This is what I got--> Thank you for your email. I can sell this 1 Oz Pamp Suisse Gold Bar Lunar Dagon for your last bid price: $ 1,650.00. Using ebay's second chance services you have 14 days to inspect my item. The deal is ebay approved and you will be able to check it once you receive the invoice from them. Needless to remind you that I am a professional seller with exquisite 100% positive feedback, so I offer and expect 100% seriousness. If you agree with the price, email me back to confirm and I will have ebay contact you with all the info regarding payment and delivery. Regards I have replied back saying I am interested. Let us see what happens next. |
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United States
200 Posts |
Quote:It might be a good idea to keep a real close eye on your ebay account activity, your PayPal account activity and the account activity of whatever credit card(s) &/or bank account(s) you have tied in with PayPal. I hope this doesn't turn out to be a new "lifetime worst" nightmare for you. Good luck. I don't think just opening e-mail will cause any problem but I changed my ebay and paypal passwords just to be safe. |
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United States
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Sounds like it could be legit? If the seller really has great feedback and you can pay using PayPal(for protection), I really don't see a prob.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Some odd phrasing in the response. " exquisite 100% positive feedback"? Perhaps English is not the sellers first language.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sounds like it could be legit? If the seller really has great feedback and you can pay using PayPal(for protection), I really don't see a prob. It's not a legitimate second chance offer. A genuine SCO will always appear in your "My Messages" in your ebay account. Quote:
Some odd phrasing in the response. " exquisite 100% positive feedback"? Perhaps English is not the sellers first language.
Yep. The odd word usage as well as the fact the SCO did not appear in the OP's "My Messages" in their ebay account has me 100% convinced this is a scam. |
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Locked
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Ok, so its not an ebay scam, it's you falling for a phishing email. Got nothing to do with ebay really. This is nothing "new" either. Phishing emails have been around about a day short as email itself. They "come from" credit unions, banks, paypal, moneybookers, ups, fedex, all kinds of places. |
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Canada
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Valued Member
United States
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Quote:Ok, so its not an ebay scam, it's you falling for a phishing email. Got nothing to do with ebay really. Yes, it is not an ebay scam. But the person sending the email had my ebay ID and my full name. How do you explain that? This is the part which worries me. |
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Valued Member
United States
200 Posts |
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Sounds like it could be legit? If the seller really has great feedback and you can pay using PayPal(for protection), I really don't see a prob. The seller does have a great feedback but the problem is I am sure it is not the same seller. They must have just got his ID off ebay just like they got mine. I have not got anything in ebay messages and if I reply to the message, it doesn't go via ebay but rather directly to a gmail ID. If I do pay via paypal, I should be covered. I am waiting for that person's email to see how he is planning to scam me. Whole thing so far has been very professionally managed. |
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Locked
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Quote:Yes, it is not an ebay scam. But the person sending the email had my ebay ID and my full name. How do you explain that? This is the part which worries me. Easy to explain, but you choose to jump to the conclusion that ebay was to blame somehow. Anyone that you have ever bought or sold with (or you) got their email hacked, which happens hundreds of thousand of times per day. |
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Valued Member
United States
200 Posts |
Quote:Easy to explain, but you choose to jump to the conclusion that ebay was to blame somehow. Anyone that you have ever bought or sold with (or you) got their email hacked, which happens hundreds of thousand of times per day. Scubu, I am not blaming ebay. I understand that this is not the fault of ebay. And your explanation does seem very probable. I am not anti-ebay or anything. I have bought a lot of stuff from ebay and will continue to do so in the future. It is a big marketplace and I cannot ignore it. What I was trying to do was to share an experience of a very sophisticated scamming attempt which used ebay as a ruse. I do not advertise for or against ebay. I am just writing my experiences. |
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Locked
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I went by the title of the topic and this... Quote:How the heck did they get that? Did they hack ebay? Sure seemed (at least to me) that you were blaming ebay. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You should probably report this to ebay and forward them the message that you received so that they can do their best to prevent it from happening again. EDITED: For spelling Edited by noahs-numismatics
03/03/2013 11:34 am
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