Is this 2nd Chance eBay Offer for real?
Prethen
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230056193523
I was the 4th highest bidder. The coin seems to already have gone for too cheap. What's going on here? Something must be up right? This seems too good to be true. He has 100% positive with over 400 feedbacks.
I was the 4th highest bidder. The coin seems to already have gone for too cheap. What's going on here? Something must be up right? This seems too good to be true. He has 100% positive with over 400 feedbacks.
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Thanks for pointing out the fact that there'd be something in my eBay summary screen. I've never received a real 2nd chance offer before.
* Never click on a link in an email, it is too easy to spoof. The exceptions might be from known senders to harmless sites.
* Ebay official communication always has a person's full name, not their screen name. This will catch 80% of the scammers.
* Official 2nd chance offers are always in the MyEbay link. Go their directly NOT through a link in an email. Again, programmers can easily make any link look like an official one. Once in a while a sophisticated scammer will send through the official Ebay channel. That leads the final step:
* Confirm the 2nd chance offer via Ebay communications, again, never via email. If it is a "hot" offer only good for two hours or whatever, the odds of it being fake are close to certainty.
Almost all high value auctions are targeted by scammers. Every week or so, someone posts about receiving one and wondering if it is real. Again, follow the steps above and you will never fall to a phishing 2nd chance offer. It is pathetic that Ebay and Paypal don't beef up their security with some simple measures that many banks now use on their sites. (eg, user chosen avatars and messages are present whenever a user enters a password. The overhead is no more than the avatars and titles on this board and the security is significant.)
<< <i>The "Respond Now" button simply brings up my e-mail program. There's a message in this 2nd chance offer giving the guys e-mail address, also. I'm sure it's a scam.
Thanks for pointing out the fact that there'd be something in my eBay summary screen. I've never received a real 2nd chance offer before. >>
Prethen:
If you "logged into" eBay after clicking the link, CHANGE YOUR EBAY PASSWORD IMMEDITATELY!!! If you do not, you account will likely be hijacked, as they phised your login info. Even if you think you did not login, if I were you I would change my password just to be safe.
Scammer - Always respond to second chance offers through your EBAY Page - Second chances will come in on
your WON page and itemized as second chance offer - Refuse Decline.
Change your password NOW!
<< <i>It is a real offer only if it shows up in your "my eBay" summary. >>
Don't even trust that. I got one in My eBay that was from a different person than the seller even once. I was the third in the bidding. I knew both bidders above me (Rob Joyce was the winner) and neither were giving it to me. Any offer that is a sale outside of eBay ultimately is bad news, unless you really know the seller and would commit to it even if eBay was never involved.
edited to add>> Also, what made that particular one ridiculous is the guy offering it tio me picked the worst candidate to say he had a second one available for me. For those who remember, it was a rare thornbird 21-S VAM that was broadstruck.
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E-bay wants to know and can track back to the computer used (somehow I think).
bob
<< <i>I just changed my password, although I don't believe it was necessary as I only hit the link directly from the e-mail that went to the auction (with no sign-in necessary). I've been nearly scammed by a similar e-mail that where I DID end up putting in my login. Luckily, I immediately realized my folly and changed my password at the time right away. >>
Same here. Quite a few months ago I got a spoof e-mail and foolishly clicked on the link. The fake e-mail had good (bad) timing in that I had just sent a payment on a completed auction and the notification in the spoof e-mail was eerily familiar. It was after I had logged in that I looked at the URL in my address bar and realized the goof. I immediately went and changed my passwords for E-Bay and PayPal and then scanned my whole system for programs that shouldn't be there. When the scan came out clean, I went and changed all of my passwords everywhere I log in just to be sure.
<< <i>If you haven't deleted your email please hit the forward button and send it to: www.spoof@ebay.com. >>
But with out the "www" bit. Just spoof@ebay.com.
If you really want to be a vigilante about it, run the email (with full headers) through Spamcop.net. That will send appropriate emails to the senders mailhost, as well as any webhosts mentioned in the email.
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