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People Trying To Steal Your Info On Ebay

dalewdalew Posts: 491
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In the last week I received an email that I thought was from ebay asking me to update my credit card information. Red Flag.

I didn't answer the email.

But, if you do receive an email from someone claiming to be email (the real ebay won't ask you for password, credit card info, etc), you should save it and forward it to:

spoof@ebay.com

Just letting everyone know that this is going on.

Dale
1st Finest Set - 1981 Baseball Fleer Basic - Retired
1st Finest Set - 1981 Baseball Fleer Master - Retired
1st Finest Set - 1955 Baseball Golden Stamps - Cleveland Indians - Retired
1st Finest Set - Mel Harder Baseball Master - Active
Mel Harder Showcase Set - Active
#15 on Current Set Registry - 1972 Topps Baseball - Retired
#23 on All Time Set Registry - 1972 Topps Baseball - Retired

Comments

  • ydsotterydsotter Posts: 500 ✭
    YEAH!!! I received similar emails... 4 times in the past week.
    All from eBay+Paypal... they wanted my info... there is nothing on the paypal site that requires such a service...
    What is going on?
    If this is a scam and you've already done this... I suggest changing your paypal password immeadiately.
    good post dale~
    -G
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  • interchangesinterchanges Posts: 864 ✭
    I've had the same thing happen to me. Any site will tell you NEVER to do anything sensitive like that thru an email.
    They also told me not to have my email address as my user i.d.
    Those emails sure look convincing! I was real close to doing it!
  • ydsotterydsotter Posts: 500 ✭
    interchanges, nice picture of Ben Wallace!
    HERE'S A COPY OF THE LETTER PAYPAL JUST SENT ME...
    IS THIS LEGIT? IT SAYS NOTHING ON THEIR SITE ABOUT THIS STUFF? I AM CONFUSED.


    Dear Member,

    PayPal is a business that serves a new and exciting market. As that market changes, our business evolves. This email is dedicated to informing users in advance of important changes to the PayPal service, its User Agreement or other policies.

    PayPal, the world's #1 online payment service, is accepted on over 3 million eBay(TM) auctions and by thousands of online shops. Over 16 million people in 38 countries worldwide use PayPal.

    At this time we require that you login and agree to the changes in the policies. It takes two minutes, and you'll even get $5 when you complete PayPal's bonus requirements. To learn more, or get started, visit PayPal's website at:

    http://www.paypal.com&webscr__track=_login-submit=successful

    We hope you enjoy using PayPal!
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  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭
    I believe that any legitimate paypal link will begin with "https://" not just "http://". Keep an eye out for the "s" on the end.

    JEB.
  • pcpc Posts: 743 ✭
    $5 x 16,000,000 users = $80,000,000
    to update info.ok it must be legit!
    Money is your ticket to freedom.
  • JeffVNJeffVN Posts: 322
    I have received both emails 1 from E-Bay & 1 from PayPal. I responded to neither, but I have changed my password for both.
    I need that 69 Bench ASimage

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  • waitilltheytrytosellwaitilltheytrytosell Posts: 378 ✭
    The emails can be setup to look exactly like one that you would normally get from ebay. The only difference is where you go when you click a link can be masked. A link like - http://www.psacard.com
    looks perfectly normal, but when you click it, it takes you someplace else. If the place it takes you to looks has a page that has been made up to look like an Ebay or Paypal page some people then attempt to log in. They got you. You can right click your mouse and view the properties of the link, or move your mouse over a link and look at the bottom to see where it looks like it will take you, but the safest way is to do nothing from the email itself. Read it, check the links, and if it is legit, then don't click on any links in the email. Go to Ebay or Paypal like you normally would, and get into your account info by yourself. The emails will get fancier and it will be harder to tell real ones from fake ones. In the future, you will see ones like "I saw this on Ebay and thought you might have interest" that appear simply to take you to an auction that you would have a genuine interest in. Nothing suspicious like asking you to update your account or card info, just a nice friendly email like you've clicked many times before. It looks just like a regular Ebay auction, you place a bid, and they got you.
  • WabittwaxWabittwax Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭
    I responded in the password box with some nasty profanity and sent it off to the hackers that were trying to steal the info. I could tell it was a scam right off the bat.
  • TipemTipem Posts: 881 ✭



    Good post,Dale


    Thanks,

    Vic
    Please be kind to me. Even though I'm now a former postal employee, I'm still capable of snapping at any time.
  • JeffVNJeffVN Posts: 322
    I just received another one of those E-Bay scam security update emails (second one in a week). I truly wish there was a way to stop this crap.image
    I need that 69 Bench ASimage

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  • KendallKendall Posts: 45
    Today I recieved an email from "EBay" saying that they needed to verify my account security. All I had to do was put my user ID and password and hit submit. It scares me to think of how many people didnt realize what this was. Since I work in the IT field and have a little knowledge on tracing, I have tracked it down to a high school in Oklahoma City. I have contacted the admin at the high school and should have a culprit caught by this afternoon.

    I really love my job!!!!
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  • WabittwaxWabittwax Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭
    Good job Kendall, hope they catch them.
  • KendallKendall Posts: 45
    This is interesting:

    FBI seeks hacker of eBay users' info
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  • SkycapSkycap Posts: 235
    Kendall, do you know whether they caught the culprit yet? Thanks.
  • KendallKendall Posts: 45
    Im not sure. It looks like the mail server from the high school was hacked. I read an article on cnn.com saying that the FBI was investigating a mail server in North Carolina being hacked last week with the same EBay emails. Probably the same people.

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  • SlappyHappySlappyHappy Posts: 7
    i once had a crook steal an image i used to sell a daisy b-b gun. it was a picture of a critter i had shot up pretty good. the fact that such theivery goes on really makes me sick.
  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    I got that email last week, but got taken with a different email tonight. I actually got suckered by this email because, as it happens, my old credit card did expire and I just got a new one, so I believed my monthly fees debit could have bounced. But after entering my info, the form bounced back and said I wasn't logged in because it was passing me off to the actual ebay site, I assume after it collected my data. Stupid.

    If you receive an email from "support@ebay.com" with the subject "NOTICE: eBay Account Update - Invalid Credit Card" you might want to ignore it, or at least go directly to ebay to login, and not follow the link. The email asks you to click a link that brings you to a page that looks like the ebay login page, and from there it asks you to enter in your credit card info. I traced the email to a company called entelchile.net, in Chile (probably forged or open relayed), and the link in the email actually goes to a site called netfirms.com, based in Canada, despite the link saying otherwise. So be like me, and only use debit cards that barely have enough money to cover the fees, and I'm about to close that account anyway.
    WANTED:
    2005 Origins Old Judge Brown #/20 and Black 1/1s, 2000 Ultimate Victory Gold #/25
    2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
    Rare Grady Sizemore parallels, printing plates, autographs

    Nothing on ebay
  • SlappyHappySlappyHappy Posts: 7
    i have found that the only true vaccination against this epidemic is to ignore all emails entirely.
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