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EBAY Acknowledges Fraud - beware!
bloodhound1
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The other day I received an email to my personal account from what appeared to be the EBAY Fraud department... well, I've attached the e-mail below. Note please the internet address reads 'ebay' and when you open up URL, a real looking EBAY web page pops up.
I became curious when I was asked to resubmit all of my financial information and passwords - also the URL site was on Yahoo. Anyway, here is the e-mail. I'll finish the story after you read it...
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
(W4VHZ1@ebay.com) on Monday, June 9, 2003 at 15:34:22
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: <b>Dear eBay User,</b>
It has become very noticeable that another party has been
corrupting your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement policy listed:
4. Bidding and Buying
You are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller if
you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats or are the highest
bidder as described below. If you are the highest bidder at the end of an
auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your
bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction
with the seller, or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement.
You received this notice from eBay because it has come to our
attention that your current account has caused interruptions with other eBay
members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account. Please verify
your account or the account may become disabled. please <a
HREF="http://rd.yahoo.com/careers/mailsig/new/*http://members.aol.com/abarnao/index.html">Click
here to verify</A>
Sincerely,
Ebay Fraud Team
Ebay Fraud Department
<b>Case Number</b> :A4L5JZ
**********************************************
So, I write the EBAY Fraud unit and I ask what is all of this about. Before anyone asks, I never gave any financial information, banking accounts or passwords. Here is the messgae that I received tonight...
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Hello,
Thank you for writing regarding the email you received that appeared to
be from eBay stating your account was corrupted.
First let me begin by telling you that this email was not sent by eBay
nor endorsed by us in anyway. These emails are the result of a
fraudulent entity. Please let me assure you that eBay will never ask for
your private information, including credit card information or
passwords, in an email format. Also, eBay will never send you any
request or solicitation from a non-eBay email account or provide a link
outside of eBay for entering credit card numbers or other private
information. If you ever need to give us information, we suggest that
you do so by going directly to the eBay.com website or use our web form.
The only recent activity on your account was a change of contact
information on June 2. If you did not make a change, let us know.
If you have entered your information on any website that you believe may
not have been a part of the eBay.com site, you should take steps to
protect your personal information. Depending on the information you
submitted, you should first start by changing your eBay password and the
password hint if you have one set up. Next, you should change the
password associated with your email address.
If you entered sensitive financial and identity information, we
recommend that you contact your bank, your credit card companies and
even your local authorities with the details of your situation. You may
also write back for a detailed list of some agencies to help get you
started in recovering your information. In addition, you should also
consider reviewing and/or changing all of your online passwords as well.
Now would also be a good time to perform a virus scan on your computer.
When it comes to the security of your eBay information, please be
assured, if another person was to gain access to your eBay password,
your credit card and bank information will remain safe on our site.
Sensitive billing information cannot be accessed using your User ID and
password. Information previously supplied may be updated but cannot be
retrieved or viewed by the user. This means you may add new billing
information but cannot access old information. This is just one of many
safeguards we use to protect your most sensitive information.
Although we are unable to provide follow up information regarding the
result of our investigation, we do take these offenses very seriously
and will make sure that appropriate action is taken against those
responsible.
Currently we believe that these messages are being sent to members that
are using their email address for their user ID. We recommend that all
members have a user ID to prevent receiving these types of messages.
Etc etc etc... (the rest I edited)
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So Beware and I hope none of you have fallen for this! Hope this has helped someone...
I became curious when I was asked to resubmit all of my financial information and passwords - also the URL site was on Yahoo. Anyway, here is the e-mail. I'll finish the story after you read it...
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
(W4VHZ1@ebay.com) on Monday, June 9, 2003 at 15:34:22
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
: <b>Dear eBay User,</b>
It has become very noticeable that another party has been
corrupting your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement policy listed:
4. Bidding and Buying
You are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller if
you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats or are the highest
bidder as described below. If you are the highest bidder at the end of an
auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your
bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction
with the seller, or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement.
You received this notice from eBay because it has come to our
attention that your current account has caused interruptions with other eBay
members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account. Please verify
your account or the account may become disabled. please <a
HREF="http://rd.yahoo.com/careers/mailsig/new/*http://members.aol.com/abarnao/index.html">Click
here to verify</A>
Sincerely,
Ebay Fraud Team
Ebay Fraud Department
<b>Case Number</b> :A4L5JZ
**********************************************
So, I write the EBAY Fraud unit and I ask what is all of this about. Before anyone asks, I never gave any financial information, banking accounts or passwords. Here is the messgae that I received tonight...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello,
Thank you for writing regarding the email you received that appeared to
be from eBay stating your account was corrupted.
First let me begin by telling you that this email was not sent by eBay
nor endorsed by us in anyway. These emails are the result of a
fraudulent entity. Please let me assure you that eBay will never ask for
your private information, including credit card information or
passwords, in an email format. Also, eBay will never send you any
request or solicitation from a non-eBay email account or provide a link
outside of eBay for entering credit card numbers or other private
information. If you ever need to give us information, we suggest that
you do so by going directly to the eBay.com website or use our web form.
The only recent activity on your account was a change of contact
information on June 2. If you did not make a change, let us know.
If you have entered your information on any website that you believe may
not have been a part of the eBay.com site, you should take steps to
protect your personal information. Depending on the information you
submitted, you should first start by changing your eBay password and the
password hint if you have one set up. Next, you should change the
password associated with your email address.
If you entered sensitive financial and identity information, we
recommend that you contact your bank, your credit card companies and
even your local authorities with the details of your situation. You may
also write back for a detailed list of some agencies to help get you
started in recovering your information. In addition, you should also
consider reviewing and/or changing all of your online passwords as well.
Now would also be a good time to perform a virus scan on your computer.
When it comes to the security of your eBay information, please be
assured, if another person was to gain access to your eBay password,
your credit card and bank information will remain safe on our site.
Sensitive billing information cannot be accessed using your User ID and
password. Information previously supplied may be updated but cannot be
retrieved or viewed by the user. This means you may add new billing
information but cannot access old information. This is just one of many
safeguards we use to protect your most sensitive information.
Although we are unable to provide follow up information regarding the
result of our investigation, we do take these offenses very seriously
and will make sure that appropriate action is taken against those
responsible.
Currently we believe that these messages are being sent to members that
are using their email address for their user ID. We recommend that all
members have a user ID to prevent receiving these types of messages.
Etc etc etc... (the rest I edited)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So Beware and I hope none of you have fallen for this! Hope this has helped someone...
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Somebody I know got the same thing, and gave the scammers all his eBay info... bogus info, that is. LOL.
I dutifully fill them out as complete as I have time for.....with phoney info.
If everyone were to fill them out with fake info maybe the bad guys would be so busy chasing bad leads they would give up?
Hard to tell where a link will take you!
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