New ebay fraud tactic?

I have been getting some "ebay" generated emails as of late. Anyone else getting these?

I know they are bogus as they come to my yahoo account which I DO NOT use for ebay.

They look official and are always a question from member regarding an item that they have won.
They seek an immediate reponse as to where to send payment and what is the total.
Problem is the members (and I know it's not actually them) did not bid and often it's an item I did not sell.

I never respond to these but am wondering what they are after. I did just report one to ebay.

One was very amusing. I state in my auctions that I ship to the U.S. only. The idiot asked if I would ship to New Jersey.
Did I miss something? New Jersey didn't secede did they?

Any comments would be appreciated.

 

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This approach has been around for at least a little while. I don't sell on Ebay, but i've gotten similar messages before -- also to an email account not associated with my Ebay account. People can be very creative when trying to part you with your hard-earned money.

 

If you respond to those forms generally you will provide enough information for the "phisher" to hijack your EBay account. Result, "you" sell high value items and don't ship them, with the proceeds going to the "phisher's" address which has been changed on your account.

 

Thats been happenning for a long while now, I can remember getting those emails three or four years ago

 

Thanks

Thanks for the information folks.

I've only been receiving these for a few months but am not stupid enough to reply.
I put a link to my yahoo account in my auctions. That is so any potential bidders can contact me. My ebay email is TOTALLY different so I know that ANYTHING that comes from "ebay" to my Yahoo account is bogus.

Makes it easier to report these idiots.

 

Forward anything you get like this to spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com if you also have a paypal account.

Ben

 

To whom do the spoof emails go and why?

 

They go to both Paypal and Ebay who track the originating IP and nip it in the bud... Just another service in the spam/phishing war.

 

Here in South Jersey we are the 51st state :goofer:

 

I received a new one today. It wanted me to do a survey for ebay, and I'm sure they would have wanted some info if I had opened it. I sent it to spoof@ebay.com.

 

I also get those eBay & PayPal emails as well,but fortunately,I'm not taken in by them,as they end up in the Bulk folder in my Yahoo email account,& in the Spam folder in my gmail account.

Aidan.

 

Make sure you give the address that sent these to a site that sends out spam.

 

Yo Philly Dog.

That kills me because I've never been to Jersey but somehow always felt a kindred spirit with all of you.

I live in the industrial dominated part of Northwest Indiana. Chicago doesn't want us (and we don't want them) and Indianapolis sees us as a place to collect taxes and get your car stolen.
We are known as the Calumet Region but affectionately refer to ourselves a "Region Rats". And we like it!

Guess there must be 52 states.

 

Yep, I get 2-3 every few weeks.... I never click on them, I always go to e-bay or paypal and log in...

You can usually tell by right clicking (not just clicking on) on the link and viewing its properies... Most of the time, you'll find the URL hidden is not the URL displayed...

There is aslo another viris that edits either your "Hosts" or "LMhosts" file and it adds entrys that redirext your DNS queerys, so that when you type www.ebay.com it really goes to www.hackersite.com or whereever they want it to go... You try and log in and then they have your UN and PW, then your account gets jacked...

 

These "phishing" emails have been around forever. Seems you must be new to Ebay, if you just started getting them.

Often, (almost daily) I get emails requesting payment for non-existant items, or request me to ship items I never listed etc.

These are not new scams, only new to the newbie edited to conform to forum rules.

 

Hey, that's smart. I haven't gotten that email before but I've gotten similar. I just report them, delete them, and block them.

 

Actually I've been on ebay since 1998 - thank you very much. I guess the fact that I have laid out my email addresses out as I did was the key. I NEVER get emails like this with my ebay address.

Perhaps I could "educate" some of the newbies without insulting them.

 

You know, what ISP you are on, and what firewalls you maintain, can make a huge difference.

I use two EBay IDs for different things. One is on Juno, and gets EBay and other phishing and scam e-mails almost daily. The other is on Verizon, and thanks to their excellent filtering, I rarely receive such emails from false EBay sites, or any others. My firewall also seems to help greatly in keeping the total down.

 

I get them and I dont even belong to ebay..lol

 

Twiggs,do you get the Paypal ones? I get the odd one,but I just delete them straight away.

Aidan.