Newest Ebay Scam

[GoodOlBoy]

Be warned. This is the only warning you will get. If you get an email from ebay telling you you have messages click here to log in and check them DO NOT DO IT!

As ALWAY If you need to check with ebay to see if you have messages, etc type in www.ebay.com DO NOT follow links in emails.

I have gotten 9 of these in the last two days. All were sent to spoof@ebay.com and ebay confirmed EVERY ONE was a scam ment to catch a login.

GoodOlBoy

[Rocky Raab]

They seem to come in waves for me, too. None for a few weeks and then tons of them.

Ditto the warning (NEVER click on an email link) with emails from PayPal, any bank or any other place where you might or might not be a member.

NONE of those legitimate places will ask you for confirmation of anything like PIN numbers, account numbers or such. EVER.

Even clicking on the link can be disastrous. Many of them automatically download trojans, spyware, viruses, worms or other malicious stuff instantly. They can even take control over your computer!

[gumpokc]

This is not new GOB, it's been going on for years.

A better safety precaution is: never, ever follow a redirect link in an email.

Does not matter who it is from or why.

Always go directly to the site in question, then manually navigate to whatever you need.

[fabsroman]

Here is the new scam involving ebay. It usually only applies to sellers and I have only seen it while looking at bikes for sale.

A potential buyer will send the seller a question asking if the item for sale is the same item listed on ebay here: link inserted.

When you click on the link, a log in screen for ebay will appear. However, if you pay attention to the actual internet address, it is not to ebay. Yes, it starts out with www.ebay.com but it turns out to be something like www.ebay.com.ch.??????? without any backslashes. One seller included the question and his response to a bike auction that I was looking at and I clicked on the link. I noticed the issue, and sent the seller an e-mail, not that it would have done any good if the seller had already provided the scammers with his login and password. The "seller" wrote me back and told me that he had already contacted ebay and he also answered my questions about the bike, so I am guessing it was the actual seller and he also caught it.

In the cycling chatboard that I am a member of, there is a thread on this, and it appears that ebay doesn't have a fix for it yet other than to end auctions if the seller clicks on a link of this type. One guy just had his bike auction cancelled because he clicked on one of these links and the bidding was at $1,875 for the bike. He wanted to know if he could sue ebay over it if he didn't get $1,875 or more for the bike on the second go round. I had to laugh. What if the guy had given away his ebay login and password because the auction was not ended when he clicked on the link? He would probably want to sue ebay for that too. People kill me.

[GoodOlBoy]

Ok maybe I should not have said newest. The CURRENT one I am getting flooded with.

Fabs thats good to know. I hadn't thought of that but yea it wouldn't take anything for them to setup a bogus linkage through an auction. Beware of ebay items found via google for the same reason.

GoodOlBoy