[s-cars] Latest ebay scam - account phishing

[Taka Mizutani]

One easy way to see this is checking the "to:" field- all of the emails I
received were sent to multiple addresses.

Another good way is to open the site in Netscape- the browser has very good
anti-phishing tools that identify if the site you are on is what it appears
to be.

It would be nice if ebay and some credit card issuers would do what my bank
does-
all they send you via email is that you have a message. You have to login to
the
bank website to read the message and there is no clickable link in the
bank's email.

Taka


On 1/26/06, Sean Douglas <quattro20v at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Ditto.
>
> I have received several emails lately from a buyer (that doesn't exist)
> saying he paid me for something I sold (I never did) and he demands a
> refund.
>
> Link takes you to a spoof ebay site and asks for (you guessed it) my
> username and password - Not!
>
> Sean
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I've been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from
> > prospective bidders asking questions about items I have
> > listed. Interestingly, I may or may not have anything listed
> > and the email is *not* going to my registered ebay email address.
> >
> > The inquiry looks legit, like it came from ebay. However, to
> > reply to the question, I have to click on a link in the
> > email...and guess what, the link doesn't take me to the
> > domain I'm expecting.
> >
> > Clearly these jerks are phishing for account information - login/id.
> >
> > Be careful out there!
> >
> > Lee
>