I rec'd an Email this am from eBay Inc: Secure Verification Process [Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:31:03 +0600], telling me I had to update my personell info. I signed on to Ebay and there was nothing I needed to do. just a heads up

 

doesn't sound like something they do. be careful sounds like someone trying to get your account info. you may consider changing your password quick

 

Recently I have been getting a similiar one from Paypal also. Don't fall for these things guys. Some loser trying to get something for nothing.

 

I hope you didn't sign on thru the link in the e-mail...? If so, you provided the phisher's your account info.

 

Those are scams. Ebay will never ask you to update your information. That email will direct you to a bogus site. It will look like Ebays but its not. An easy way to tell is the email will ask you to supply your email password. You usually receive one of these emails after you inquire about one of those deals that are too good to be true. Its an attempt at identity theft.

Here is how the scam works. Once you supply your information the bad guys will start using your information to post things for sale on Ebay. Once they have your passwords they will redirect communication to another email address owned by them. If you have responded to any of these emails do a search on Ebay under your user name you will eventually find things for sale by you but isn't really by you.

Jim

 

Here is an example of a scam email...notice the link to update is
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAP...Pdat.....thats not Ebay

If you have responded to one of these I suggest you Immediately change your email and Ebay password. Think about what they can do with access to your email address. Example they could email Paypal and say they forgot there password, paypal will send info to your email which they intercept...they now have your credit card number and other personal info....this is just the beginning...

WARNING DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS BELOW!!!!!

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:24:33 -0600
From: "eBay Safe Harbour" abcd@eBay.com
Subject: TKO NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension - Breach of User
Agreement

Dear eBay member:

It has come to our attention that your eBay billing informations are
out of order. Please folow the instructions to update your billing
records you will not run into any future problems with the online
service afther this update. However, failure to update your records
will result in account termination. Please update your records in
maximum 72 hours

Once you have updated your account records your eBay session will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will
result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations
or future billing problems.

To update your eBay Informations click here:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate

eBay Safe Harbour Depa rtament
http://www.eBay.com

 

I received one of these not too long ago as well. I did send it to EBay Safe Harbor and they replied back, as the guys above said, that it was fake and never to reply to these.

Scary thing was the quality of the scam. The page that I received was at least as good as anything that I'd get from EBay.

 

I get them all the time and I immediately forward to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com whichever is applicable.
Also, another way to confirm that the e-mail is NOT from ebay is to get out of your e-mail and via your browser go to ebay's site and then go to "My ebay" and look in the "My messages" section. If the e-mail is not there, it is not from ebay. This is something that ebay instructed me to do becasue if it were from ebay , you would have a duplicate of the email in your "My Messages" section of "my ebay".

 

I did forward the email to the Spoof email address, and I did not login to the link they sent. I knew it was a scam, I get the same type thing from someone acting like they are Citibank.

 

Yeah,I got the paypal e-mail telling me my paypal had problems.The only problem is I don't have paypal.
Still bums me out that they have my email address.

 

These scams are out there all the time. They are frequent also with banks and credit card companies asking to verify your information. They will often look very legit, but thats how they get people. NEVER reply to any of these...better to not even click on the links at all as you could be added to another spam mailer list.

 

Sadly, the only reason you get those emails is because it IS an effective way to get access to peoples money -- if no one was responding or participating in the requested actions, they wouldn't send the emails anymore.

The world is becoming a very cruel place, in that you cannot trust even the simplest things anymore without worrying about being caught in some kind of scam.

Brian.

 

I received one of these scams pretending to be Amazon just last week. These companies should NEVER ask for personal info in an e-mail. Be careful guys.