Warning!!!! If You Buy And Sell On Ebay!!!!!

I just got this spoof email, and the item number they give isn't an actual item number, and they want you to copy and paste their link in your browser so it will open up to a fake or spoof ebay login page.
Don't login or they will have your password.

Don't ever log into paypal view a copy and paste page, ebay doesn't work like this.

Here's a copy of the email.

Dear coinauctionshelp,

I`ve just seen your item and it seems very suspicious because there`s someone on ebay selling the exact same thing .Please check this auction number below (copy/paste into your browser):
cgi.ebay.com.viewitem.285979819111.trrox.com
If you`re the real seller of it you should report the other guy to eBay .

- caucacon

 

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Yeah, I've gotten a few of these things, not from eBay, but from PayPal a couple times, about fraudulent this and click this link that...
Just gotta use common sense, look carefully at the email address, and the photos in the email, as long with the text in the email.
I do what a question? What was the subject line of the email?
If it was really from eBay, it would say something around the lines of, "You've received a message from an eBay member" or something similar, but just about a question about your item.
You'd also have many eBay graphics in the email.

 

haven't seen one of those yet.

 

Never reply to any ebay or PP email. If it is genuine the same message can be read on your ebay or PayPal site. Please report these guys by forwarding the email to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com

 

Sage advice and although I no longer sell on ebay and rarely bid I have an email account for ebay only.
Anything that pops up in my regular email is immediately deleted.

 

Ebay and Paypal don't send out alerts to your email no matter what the case may be. I get supposed messages claiming to be from them almost daily and they go right into the trash.
Guy~

 

I called paypal last week about my account, and since then have gotten three bogus emails. I wonder why the increase.

 

I get the same ones all the time, but I never got one like this, and thought I should warn other sellers. I can say, when someone sends me a question that another is selling the same coin or coins as me, I went panic mode. The coins are mine, and I didn't want other collectors not to bid because of this other fraud seller. I have seen it happen to other sellers in the past. The auction is ending in the last 3 hours, and went red.

 

I called paypal and asked about my account. I got two emails supposedly telling me a way I can resolve my problem I was having. Paypal, on the phone, said they weren't from them.

I got another one today. It tells me someone paid twice for an item I sold to him. It wanted to direct me to another link.

If this happens all the time, who are they from? It makes me think that paypal isn't as secure as it claims they are.

 

what is the return address of the emails? also you can check the full routing info of who exactly sent it, right down to the internet provider the sender is using.

 

Your kidding! I got an email like that today and when I called the number back, it was paypal. I actually got the sellers id, but haven't refunded the double payment. I also talked with paypal when I called the number back and mentioned the other call, they didn't act as if it was fraudulent.

The man that called said this seller had paid twice to several sellers and contacted paypal, so they could contact all the sellers for them.

I'm smelling a rat, is there something amiss in paypal's ranks? I have to check into this, it could be huge, and this needs to be all over the boards, twitter, digg, facebook, etc. We all need to warn fellow ebayers, ebay and paypal, or a lot of people our going to loose a lot of money.

 

PayPal has a question and answer forum... most of the problems have been encountered by others and you should be able to find some answers here:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Fraud-phishing-and-spoof/bd-p/FPS

 

Inside job?!

 

They are from spammers. I used to get weird emails like that. For some reason, I have not received any in the last couple years. Anyway, all I did was to look at my PayPal account. For some reason, I never managed to find anything frozen, double paid, restricted, having paid for something I never bought, etc. Never worried about anything after that.

 

do you know how much money a paypal/ebay employee could make by selling e-mail addresses of confirmed account holders? or a crooked employee selling cc numbers? remember paypal is not a bank and doesn't have to follow banking rules. they are kind of like a mob bank - they make the rules as they go along. if you don't like it, too bad, they put a hold on your money.

 

Those are all things the crooks could fake easily if they wanted, and these scams just keep getting more plausible over time, so you shouldn't count on things like that.

One of the best defenses is always to use your own bookmark to go to eBay or PayPal instead of clicking on a possibly bogus link in email.

 

For the next couple of years, I'm really not worry about it. The scammers continue to not send anything with any kind of real graphic or even a graphic that likes right. They haven't been doing it right for years, and for a little while longer, I'm not expecting them to make a big leap out of nowhere.

I don't really plan on getting scammed by one of these idiots, ever. The majority of that kind of mail for me, goes in the spam anyway, and I can think of maybe two or three that have gotten through.

It boils down to common sense. If you get in an email from a big, professional company, in ALL CAPS, or all lowercase, or even AlTeRnAtInG letters, don't open it. Even if you do, and it gives you odd links, don't open it.

If it is from eBay, and is important, it will also be in your messages on eBay itself, always smart to check there before opening an email if you are not sure.

 

Just a suggestion. If you are getting these all of a sudden, check your system very well with a real virus checker, as you may have been infected with a key logger, and getting people to log in ( even to the real paypal or your bank) with the key logger virus there, will allow it to capture your login and password, and then send it to Romania or someplace like that. Most of the viruses are Kiddie-scripts level which can be detected by Kaspersky's or Malwarebytes ( both have free checkers on their website which are pretty good), but if you are infected with a real hack, hopefully you know someone who can use real tools to eradicate it.

 

It might be relevent to the topic at hand, but last week I got an email letting me know that my Paypal account has been compromised.

Except, I Don't Have a Paypal account!! I simply deleted it (marked as spam) without opening it.

 

IF someone paid twice, I would think the buyer would contact the seller immediately not Paypal. Along these lines, would paypal freeze one pay transaction if it was legitimate? Come to think it about it, if Paypal is noticing a trend on a buyer doing this wouldnt you think they would freeze his account or investigate it?