EBAY

[21QUEST]

Not really a 'biking issue' but I need a quick responce.

Got an e-mail apparently from e-bay saying my user ID and password has been rest and I need to go onto the ebay web site and go through the forgotten pasword steps etc .....

I thought it must be one of those sppof e-mails but I can't sign onto ebay now. Just wondering if anyone has recently received a similar e-mail from ebay . I need to know as I'm bidding on some stuff and need to get on ASAP. Anyone know of a phone number for ebay. Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Ben

[Mervin]

Did you click on a link on the email?

If so, you went to a spoof site that collects your password.

If you cant get in your login, chances are that someone has gone in, changed your password and is planning to empty any cards you may have registered on ebay.

There's a link to report spoof sites on ebay somewhere, but no phone number that I know of.

[TSM]

what they probably did was try to get into ebay and caused it to lock you out, then they send you an email to apperently reactivate your account.

People think it is real because they cant get into their account.

Get the ebay tool bar, it has a nifty feature that tells you if you are on a genuine ebay site or if it is fraud it will pop up a warning blocking your access to the site.

[21QUEST]

Did you click on a link on the email?

If so, you went to a spoof site that collects your password.

If you cant get in your login, chances are that someone has gone in, changed your password and is planning to empty any cards you may have registered on ebay.

There's a link to report spoof sites on ebay somewhere, but no phone number that I know of.

Did not actually go into the Ebay site and follow the steps as directed in the e-mail. I was to click onto the link once you had got a reply from ebay(which wiull contain it.that is the funny bit) Normally the spoofs would tell you to click onto a link straight away in the first e-mail. The only way I can think of that working is that someone has already got access to my computer when I am online and so any email from ebay is redirected to a third party site and modified(to contain the link) before it reaces me. Then once I click onto the link , Voila they have my details. I dunno really but that all I can think of it working if a scam. Make sense?

Cheers
Ben

[21QUEST]

what they probably did was try to get into ebay and caused it to lock you out, then they send you an email to apperently reactivate your account.

People think it is real because they cant get into their account.

Get the ebay tool bar, it has a nifty feature that tells you if you are on a genuine ebay site or if it is fraud it will pop up a warning blocking your access to the site.

I must have been typing as you replied. Yep your explanation makes a lot of sense.

Cheers
Ben

[TrojanHorse11]

If you ever get an email "from ebay" that you are suspicious of, just send it to spoof@ebay.co.uk and they will check it and let you know. Don't alter the heading or anything - just send it exactly as it is. This is what they tell you to do on the ebay site. If it is a spoof, they investigate it and hopefully throw the theiving scum that sent it into a prison (or off the end of a pier).

If you wish to verify this yourself, go to EBAY, then click on HELP in the white box, then under ACCOUNT SECURITY AND PROTECTION click on HOW TO IDENTIFY SPOOF EMAILS and you will see the instructions.

[Carsick]

If you ever get an email "from ebay" that you are suspicious of, just send it to spoof@ebay.co.uk and they will check it and let you know. Don't alter the heading or anything - just send it exactly as it is. This is what they tell you to do on the ebay site. If it is a spoof, they investigate it and hopefully throw the theiving scum that sent it into a prison (or off the end of a pier).

If you wish to verify this yourself, go to EBAY, then click on HELP in the white box, then under ACCOUNT SECURITY AND PROTECTION click on HOW TO IDENTIFY SPOOF EMAILS and you will see the instructions.
That's all well and good, but they don't do anything about it.
I've reported 3 or 4 so far and I've had the same email everytime.

[Cloggsy]

Forward the e-mail to spoof@ebay.co.uk

They will verify that the e-mail is genuine or indeed spoof (which it will be ;))

[21QUEST]

Forward the e-mail to spoof@ebay.co.uk

They will verify that the e-mail is genuine or indeed spoof (which it will be ;))

Yeah knew that as I had previously sent a couple of e-mails to Ebay previously.

I only opened and read the e-mail and indeed thought spoof (NB there was no link in it ) but when I could not log onto my ebay(co-incidence?) account I got a bit desperate as I had bids to place :roll:. I was banking on Cloggsy to have a direct line to Ebay :wink: :wink: :) (really appreciated you getting back to me).

Well , what I have done gone onto the ebay website and went through the steps to change 'password' and I can now sign into my account. All other details that can be will be changed as well. Thanks all.

Cheers
Ben

[TrojanHorse11]

That's all well and good, but they don't do anything about it.
I've reported 3 or 4 so far and I've had the same email everytime.

Me too - I've sent off about 5 or 6 times. I think it's an automated service! (Although you can get the email address of the sender and send some offensive emails to them! ha ha :lol: )

[The Mass]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......


Listen all of you, BE WARNED!!!

DO NOT Under any circumstances ENTER ANY OF YOUR DETAILS on one of those bloody spoof ebay threads!!! :shock: :shock:

I have witnessed first hand what goes on, it was only last week that a server that i have stuff hosted on, was hacked by an ebay scammer, hosting a fake ebay - and capturing your ebay account and password and harvesting your credit card details!!!

I can now tell you that the FBI are now involved, and are tracing the IP addresses that the server was hacked by.

You have been warned

Sorry for being so blunt peeps, but there are some bad arses out there :wink: waiting for some plum to give them their credit card details and ebay account info.

nough said

Mass

[Carsick]

I think it's now time to wheel this one out again
Phishing IQ Test (http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html)



* You automatically fail if you click on this link without checking to see where it goes or don't make sure you open it in a new browser window.

[TrojanHorse11]

In response to The Mass' post, the simple answer is: don't give away your details to any email EVER, regardless of how genuine it looks. If there is a problem, it can be resolved by going directly to the site in your own way - not using an email.

In response to Carsick's post, I tried it and only got 5 correct (but then I did say that ALL of them were frauds!). Incidentally, I did know that you can look at the URL and notice that an apparently genuine email isn't genuine: example: one from ebay is from an email address that starts with www.ucw-blah-blah.com (plus it should be .co.uk at the end as well).
If the Paypal one has genuinly happened in real life, then that is sick that someone would try to fraudulently get money using the Asian Tsunami as a means. :evil:

[timwilky]

About a year ago one of my clients contacted me in panic. A system I had advised them to upgrade (They wouldn't because of costs) was hacked and a phishing page inserted.

I passed the page source to ebay. but my analysis of it, it connected directly to a remote server in russia and passed account details. I enjoyed swamping that box with all sorts of garbage username/password combinations, I wrote a multi threaded java application to read a dictionary and ramdomly choose words to use.

It probably got that bad that they gave over believing their system was working. I hope they had to pay for their bandwidth as I was chucking about 30GB a day at it over a weekend. Logged on on the monday morning and my app had crashed as the remote server was no longer accepting connections

[northwind]

I keep on getting suspended from Ebay because I dismiss every email I get purporting to be from them as a scam, even the genuine ones :oops: But it's better that then the alternative.

[chutz]

I think it's now time to wheel this one out again
Phishing IQ Test (http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html)



* You automatically fail if you click on this link without checking to see where it goes or don't make sure you open it in a new browser window.

Hmmmm, 8 out of 10, not but and the wrong answers I gave were legit and I said fraud so at least I erred on the side of caution :wink:

[Carsick]

I think it's now time to wheel this one out again
Phishing IQ Test (http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html)



* You automatically fail if you click on this link without checking to see where it goes or don't make sure you open it in a new browser window.

Hmmmm, 8 out of 10, not but and the wrong answers I gave were legit and I said fraud so at least I erred on the side of caution :wink:
Same score as me and for the same reasons.

[TrojanHorse11]

I keep on getting suspended from Ebay because I dismiss every email I get purporting to be from them as a scam, even the genuine ones :oops: But it's better that then the alternative.

:lol:

I got BANNED from ebay. I couldn't purchase an item after bidding so the guy sent me LOADS of REALLY NASTY emails (not appropriate behaviour from a seller at all? - I complained to ebay, who did nothing as usual). I retaliated by bidding on LOADS of his items that all finished within minutes of each other, then left really nasty feedback for him on all the items :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Needless to say, my account was banned! :lol: :lol: (it is actually quite funny when it happens)

I now have another account under a diferent username, email address etc

[portreekid]

Same as previous posts, in total received 4 or 5 spoofs supposedly from ebay, also got a couple supposedly from Paypal this week. Similar scam.

The Arsicles!

[pete m]

as some of you know , i was suspended from ebay, and have had to send proof of adress and identity to the investigations dept in Belfast..hope this is all for real. Assume it is as my ebay says i am suspended... :( :(