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Location: SE Michigan | Never seen this twist on EBAY fraud before, thought I would warn you:
I am currently selling a guitar on EBAY. I get an email from another EBAY user (an internal ebay routed email). The guy says he has seen my same guitar for sale on another auction and includes a URL to the auction. So I'm thinking someone stole my photos and description and is running a fraudulant auction. When I go to the URL it has an official looking EBAY log in screen and says "log in to private auction".
I never heard of a private EBAY auction before, one where you have to log in just to view it. The alarm bells go off.
I did not log in because this is obviously a fishing scheme to get my ID and password. When I went to the real EBAY site and tried to search for the fraudulant auction that the guy mentioned I could not find it.
If these assholes would put half the thought and effort that they use for crime into a real job they could probably make a nice living.
Rule-of-thumb: NEVER put your log-in info into a URL you receive in an email. I reported the matter to Ebay, we'll see what they do. The person obviously has an ebay account because the email was sent to me through the ebay email system. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | If you DO catch yourself having logged on to eBay under suspicious circumstances, don't even breathe again until you have changed your password. |
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Location: boulder | Sometimes I get emailed something like "your paypal account has been hacked, please log in and check out your information"...
My account has never been hacked... But if you scroll over the link that is provided, at the bottom of your screen, you can see the real url address. (maybe you need your status toolbar on-can't remember) anyways. as stated, never log on to any link that is not the known real one. peace |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | well said Paul...
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have received email links to pay my cell phone bill with up to three different amounts in the same month. Several second chance offers from "ebay" and many, many hot stock spams.
Always log into Ebay and check your messages for verification.
Thanks for the heads up. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | There is a new generation of scams that seem to go through actual ebay messages. What they share in common is requiring a log-in. I don't know how it is done, having an honest job and all.... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Brian;
Yes, I saw that same thing on a couple of auctions. Almost fell for it once...when I realized what was going on, I continued, but for my user name I typed "Get a real job, A$$%&#E" and sent that along for his benefit...he seemed like he could use a little advice.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I always just forward that stuff to spoof@ebay and ignor it. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I did forward the the page to "spoof..." but they send me an email saying they were only interested in fraudulent emails...go figure.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | That WAS a fraudulent email! Guess they mean the spam/mass mailing stuff. And thanx for this warning thread. I almost got beat by a second offer scam once, I hope I'm smarter now. |
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Location: SE Michigan | I just got another phishing email from the EBAY email system, meaning this person has an EBAY account, this guy says:
I already forwarded the email to spoof@ebay.com |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Probably a stolen account. A lot of people sign into those spoofs and don't even realize what they've done until it's too late.
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | A good friend of mine had his account stolen, most likely via logging on as a result of one of these emails. He doens't use eBay very often and didn't realize what had happened until he started getting angry emails from people who had won 'his' auctions and sent money, and were wondering where their items were. That's wicked! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Holy smoke...
I'm getting messages from sellers I have never looked at. One said, "Nice try... try scamming somewhere else."
I've changed my password and notifed e-bay that I should have no auctions or bids currently under my name. |
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Location: Oregon | I get the Ugandans and such on my real e-mail account. I cussed one out once, apparently whatever I typed they mistok for SEND ME MORE! I learned my lesson on that one.
Whoever would have though the Princess of Africa would need my help? |
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Location: big island | check out the phishing scam on the adamas II 1981 in the sell/trade forum in my posting. |
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Location: big island | just dawned on my lightning-like brain that this guitar auction might be the one that brian t, who started this thread, is referring to. :rolleyes: |
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Location: big island | nearly two hours later: it just dawned on my dim-bulb brain that this cannot be the same auction as brian t's cuz he is in michigan and this seller is in south carolina...sheesh! moody, can i get some p i lessons? |
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New twist on EBAY fraud