WARNING: New Ebay hijack email goin' round

Onlypsahockey

Just a warning if you get an email like this do not click on the links!

This is the best spoof I've seen so far.

Title: Question from ebay member

Mika485 asks: What happened to my item. I have paid for it. Let me know asap or I will have to report you to ebay.

To see item click here: Then there is a link.

If you click this item you send all your info to this ahole. This is how
these scamming scum are hijacking accounts.


I had to think for a minute if Mika485 was a winner in one of my auctions.

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up.

Be careful out there. Back at it.

Bob

WinPitcher

only read email thru "my ebay"

thanks for the tip though.

SD

bxb

Got me too.
Had to change my ebay info.

iamthegreatcornholio

I'm the odd man out since I don't ever look in my ebay mail - I respond using my regular email. If you right click the links they send you, you'll see the real url. It's a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, and clearly not an ebay domain. I've gotten a few of these from "Mika485", the funniest was diguised to look like sharper image and tried to sell me computers using broken english and ebonics...

Stone193

This is a dumb question...

I don't understand - if you open a link from your email site - how do they immediately get any info?

mike

iamthegreatcornholio

i've never clicked the link, but i believe it will come up as a page disguised to look like ebay asking you to login... once you login they have your password since it is on their "fake" ebay site. also i have heard that on some of these, once you click the link, it starts a nasty chain of spyware/adware downloading on your computer.