Warning for ebay users, if you think you are so smart.

ohbaby

Here is an ebay link which has been mentioned in the past; however, I was almost fooled.

https//:cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayLogin/cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/Update

They [the con artists] send you an email saying the following:

We want to inform you that because of some technical problems and a great data loss our team scheduled a maintenance session and managed to keep your account and auctions in good state. Please verify if you are still able to log in and if your seller account is active clicking here:

When you click on the link it looks exactly like the ebay login but it really steals your password. When you enter that it then it takes you to another page to enter all your personal, credit card and checking info. Scary!

I suspect a foreign source as at the very end of that second page there in red letters is a funny sounding phrase which no native speaker would phrase that way.

I can only imagine how many have fallen for this then realized too late. I am always warning newbies but they seem to think they know it all. I was fooled for about 5 seconds, I hesitated long enough to not enter any real info.

Now here is where you can have some fun! Enter some fake info at the link and keep the hackers busy trying to sort out what's real and not real. I just sent them a bunch of fake info on about a dozen accounts which should keep them busy for about 30 minutes.

Edited to add: Sorry guys I can't seem to get the link to work here.

Try this:

Fraud Link

CLASSICS

hi,........ and thanks for the information, yes we all need to be careful.

ChodeLee

Here is another looks real. I called e-bay today ( 1 888 749-3229) to unfreeze my access after I logged into the bogus pages below. I was lucky, I did not share any credit card info. Ebay customer service said that they would never ask you for any personnal information, so never give it if asked

My scam e-mail below:


We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if
you don't resolve your problems. To resolve this problems please click here
and login into your account in order to resolve your the problems. If your
problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a
period of 3-4 days, after that it will be again operational.
Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning,
temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership
and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe
that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our
users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or
authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited
from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new
account.
Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your
agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to ebay.
Regards,
Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.
--
eBay

ElectricEye

I get those all the time ~ one neat feature is that you can enter a bogus user id and password in and it will display a thank you page from "EBay" I "login" to their site with a user id like "go****yourselfpieceof****" "upyoursmu********" and use a password like "eat my****" or "stupidmut******* try again". After I get the thank you page, I go back to the email and "login" again with more obscenities and insults. It is a good stress reliever.

tgilliams

great idea. i just gave them 6 more to look up.

1jester

ChodeLee's scam is also written by a foreign, non-native English speaker. Be careful!