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eBay Spoof E-mails

shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
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How do I report these?
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."

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  • poppiepoppie Posts: 598
    The email address is: spoof@ebay.com . Thereare so many of them out there! I even had some idiot call me at home purporting to be from Ebay to give me a phoney 800 number for "customer service" !!
    My focus, 1970 Topps Baseball Raw and Graded, pre 1989 PSA Hockey and 1933 INDIAN GUM ! Yikes!!
  • nearmintnearmint Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭
    I use Outlook Express, and here's what I do:

    - right-click on the message and pick Properties
    - go to the Details tab in the Properties window
    - pick the Message Source... button
    - copy the entire message, including headers, from the Message Source window and paste it into a new email
    - send the email to spoof@ebay.com

    The headers will help them determine where the spoof is coming from.

    Mike
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    Vintage Football Card Gallery
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reporting the spoofs really is a waste of time. The spoofs are done usually from Nigeria and some former Soviet Union countries and those doing the spoofs constantly change their e-mails and know how to get around the laws in their country so they don't get prosecuted. But report the spoofs if you want to, it certainly can't hurt. But the answer really is simple...never, NEVER, click on a link from an e-mail. If getting something that looks interesting from ebay, even if it looks legit, go direct to ebay.com and then find it.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    I've received tons of spoof e-mails from both eBay and Pay Pal and never bothered to report them, but the one I got this morning was so stupid that I felt compelled to do so. It was for an auction that ended yesterday, without meeting the reserve by the way, for which I was like the 4th highest bidder. Big disparity between me and underbidder too. The person who sent the e-mail (not even using the seller's user ID!) said he was making the lot available to me because the winning bidder could not complete the transaction - this less than a full day later. You have to be really naive and/or dumb to fall for this stuff. And this one especially was an extremely poor attempt at fraud. LOSER!!!
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • earlycalguyearlycalguy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭
    I did get a call from ebay at home that did have a legit 800 number for them. i was telling the guy on the phone it was a scam and to not call me again...then he said to look in my messages and i'd see there was an email from ebay with the same 800 number on it. i've used it a couple times and it comes in handy - no waiting to speak to a live person.

    not to say there aren't other calls out there with scam 800 numbers...just make sure to check your my messages in box on ebay.
  • MarkJMarkJ Posts: 160


    How do these guys get our emails from ebay and paypal?
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How do these guys get our emails from ebay and paypal? >>


    Mark
    One way is all that pesky "spyware" that gets attached to your computer everyday - I would guess?

    mike
    Mike
  • LuvMyCoinsLuvMyCoins Posts: 47


    I get several a day and I always email them to spoof@ebay or paypal. I just wish I knew how they get our emails from ebay.
  • nearmintnearmint Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I just wish I knew how they get our emails from ebay. >>



    I doubt if they do. I get these spoofs at email addresses I've never used for ebay. I also get them for banks where I've never had accounts. The senders just send them out randomly and hope for hits.

    Nearmint's Vintage Football Cards
    Vintage Football Card Gallery
  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    i used to go through the trouble of forwarding them all to spoof@ebay or spoof@paypal depending on how they were trying to rip me off, but anymore i only forward the really good ones because most of them are so lame, so easy to pick off, that i feel that anyone that logs on and enters their information almost deserves to get ripped off... I receive at least 20 rip-off attempts a week through my email and i don't even waste my time with them anymore except for the fraction of a second it takes to press the "delete" key... i guess there must be a lot of morons in the world because these people keep doing this, so they must be getting paid somehow.. i for one would like to see the government catch a few of these creeps and string them up.. image
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭


    << <i>How do these guys get our emails from ebay and paypal? >>

    They don't get them from eBay or Paypal. They just send them out to mass-mailing lists. Since so many people have eBay and Paypal accounts, they are bound to rope in a few suckers. Same thing with banking. I get spoof emails pretending to be from banks I don't even deal with.
  • SnowballSnowball Posts: 361


    << <i>I've received tons of spoof e-mails from both eBay and Pay Pal and never bothered to report them, but the one I got this morning was so stupid that I felt compelled to do so. It was for an auction that ended yesterday, without meeting the reserve by the way, for which I was like the 4th highest bidder. Big disparity between me and underbidder too. The person who sent the e-mail (not even using the seller's user ID!) said he was making the lot available to me because the winning bidder could not complete the transaction - this less than a full day later. You have to be really naive and/or dumb to fall for this stuff. And this one especially was an extremely poor attempt at fraud. LOSER!!! >>




    I've got those, too. There must be a serious security flaw in ebay and paypal's programming. I read somewhere that one of the 2 flaws was the cutomer service survey and the ebay's end of auction email. A scammer can intercept those. It was on some tech news site.

    Also nigerian scammers have wised up. They now use european address (a friend will set up an address there)instead of nigeria. I think I read this on yahoo site. The head of the scammers is the owner of an internet cafe and people work for him on a comission basis. Some of these scammers are under 18 yrs old.





    RIP Snow
  • WizardsguildcardsWizardsguildcards Posts: 536
    I have gotten them on an email account that I do not have Paypal or Ebay linked to in anyway..
  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How do I report these? >>



    The correct way to report ( according to ebay) is to FORWARD the email to spoof@ebay.com

    The same works for paypal spoof.................forward to spoof@paypal.com
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