Fraud Email - Attempt To Access My eBay Account > General Discussion

Posted: 3/6/2004 2:22:28 PM EDT

Man, these fuckers are really after me!
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=231998&w=myTopicPop
Be careful folks!
Here's the text of what they sent me. The original page with graphics looks EXACTLYlike a real eBay page.

Dear [email protected],
During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we could not verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted.
According to our site policy you will have to confirm that you are the real owner of the eBay account by log in and complete the form that will pop up or else your account will be suspended without the right to register again with eBay.
After you will login please verify your information in order to complete this verification.
Thank you
eBay Customer Support
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I sent the above email to eBay - here's the reply:

Hello,
Thank you for contacting eBay's Trust and Safety Department about email
solicitations that are falsely made to appear to have come from eBay.
These emails, commonly referred to as "spoof" messages, are sent in an
attempt to collect sensitive personal information from recipients who
reply to the message or click on a link to a Web page requesting this
information.

The email you reported did not originate from, nor is it endorsed by,
eBay. We are very concerned about this problem and are working
diligently to address the situation. We have investigated the source of
this email and have taken appropriate action. You may rest assured that
your account standing has not changed and that your listings have not
been affected.

We advise you to be very cautious of email messages that ask you to
submit information such as your credit card number or your email
password. eBay will never ask you for sensitive personal information
such as passwords, bank account or credit card numbers, Personal
Identification Numbers (PINs), or Social Security numbers in an email
itself. If you ever need to provide information to eBay please open a
new Web browser, type www.ebay.com, and click on the "site map" link
located at the top the page to access the eBay page you need.

If you have any doubt about whether an email message is from eBay,
please forward it immediately to [email protected] and do not respond to it
or click on any of the links in the email message. Please do not change
the subject line or forward the email as an attachment.

If you entered personal information such as your password, social
security number or credit card numbers into a Website based on a request
from a spoofed email, you need to take immediate action to protect your
identity. We have developed an eBay Help page with valuable information
regarding the steps you should take to protect yourself.

To get to the "Protecting Your Identity" Help page from the eBay site,
please click on the "help" link located at the top of most eBay pages
and select the following topics when the "eBay Help Center" window
appears:

Safe Trading > If Something Goes Wrong > Identity Theft

We encourage you to review additional information about protecting your
identity found in the eBay Help system. Please click on the "help" link
located at the top of most eBay pages and select the following topics
when the "eBay Help Center" window appears:

Safe Trading > If Something Goes Wrong& > Account Theft > Account
Protection

Once again, thank you for alerting us to the spoof email you received.
Your vigilance helps us ensure that eBay remains a safe and vibrant
online marketplace.

Regards,

Ian
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team
______________________________
eBay
Your Personal Trading Community (tm)

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Important: eBay will not ask you for sensitive personal information
(such as your password, credit card and bank account numbers, Social
Security numbers, etc.) in an email. Learn more account protection tips
at:
www.pages.ebay.com/help/account_protection.html

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Posted: 3/6/2004 2:31:15 PM EDT

[#1]

I think I got that same e-mail last week. It looked fake so I just deleted it.

Posted: 3/6/2004 2:39:51 PM EDT

[#2]

medicmandan,

Glad yours looked fake - mine was very real looking.

Posted: 3/6/2004 2:42:23 PM EDT

[#3]

I get them weekly from PayPal and Ebay. I sent the first two, to Ebay and they told me they were fake so I just delete them.

Posted: 3/6/2004 2:43:57 PM EDT

[#4]

I get the same type of stuff from Yahoo "admin" all the time. They finally changed their e-mails so they show up highlighted yellow or purple in my inbox.

Posted: 3/6/2004 2:56:48 PM EDT

[#5]

"Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of 'spoofed' e-mail messages with return addresses, links, and branding which appear to come from banks, insurance agencies, retailers or credit card companies. These fraudulent messages are designed to fool the recipients into divulging personal authentication data such as account usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. Because these emails look “official”, up to 5% of recipients may respond to them, resulting in financial losses, identity theft, and other fraudulent activity."

Latest e-bay scam:

[url]http://www.antiphishing.org/phishing_archive/eBay_3-1-04.htm[/url]

Posted: 3/6/2004 3:21:23 PM EDT

[#6]

I've heard from several other folks with AOL accounts will get "You've got Pictures" e-mails that purport to be from AOL, that direct you to an AOL-looking site where you're supposed to log on to check them out. But it isn't an AOL site, it just harvests your account name and password.
Just a word to others to keep an eye out for it....

Posted: 3/6/2004 3:30:15 PM EDT

[#7]

Lately I've been getting emails looking like someone responds to my ebay questions on a particular item. the email has a link that looks like and auction page, but it's another phising scam too...

Posted: 3/6/2004 3:39:17 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Lately I've been getting emails looking like someone responds to my ebay questions on a particular item. the email has a link that looks like and auction page, but it's another phising scam too...

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i been getting that one also 2x's this week

Posted: 3/6/2004 4:07:10 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
medicmandan,

Glad yours looked fake - mine was very real looking.

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So was mine, I clicked on "properties".

I just found out yesterday, my zone alarm has a place for your e-bay password. Apparently they made a deal with e-bay, to protect us....

It CANNOT be used from a different computer.

(I think.... [:D] )

Posted: 3/6/2004 4:16:19 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
medicmandan,

Glad yours looked fake - mine was very real looking.

View Quote

So was mine, I clicked on "properties".

I just found out yesterday, my zone alarm has a place for your e-bay password. Apparently they made a deal with e-bay, to protect us....

It CANNOT be used from a different computer.

(I think.... [:D] )

View Quote

Please elaborate on the password thingy... and is it just eBay or will Zone Alarm protect other passwords as well?

Posted: 3/6/2004 4:21:57 PM EDT

[#11]

I got the same exact email. Mine also looked very real. Luckly I stopped filling it out when it asked for my social security number. I thought that sounded fishy, so I just deleted the email. I didn't think anything about it again, until I read this post. Thank god, I just deleted it.

Posted: 3/6/2004 4:33:53 PM EDT

[#12]

I got just about the same e-mail a couple of months ago. they were asking me my bank account number, checking account number, date of birth, mothers maiden name, and a secret message.

I filled in the blanks with lots of curse words and submited it.[:D]

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