Ebay phishing scam

[Ought Six]

Beware if you get the following email:

your ebay account could be suspended

From: eBay Billing Department <services@ebay.com>

EBAY

Dear valued customer Need Help?

We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here/u] and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after this period your account will be terminated.

For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.

Regards,Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc
The eBay team.
This is an automatic message. Please do not reply.

This email is *NOT* from Ebay. It is from scam artists. When you click the link, you will be sent to a website that looks like an official Ebay site, but is not. It will prompt you to enter all your Ebay account info, including username and password, and credit card info. Once they have that, you are screwed. I have been getting these emails daily for the last couple of weeks.

Here is another version of the Ebay phishing scam:

There are also fraudulent emails pretending to be from Ebay potential buyers querying you about your items for sale. There will be a box in the corner of the email with a short paragraph about Ebay email scams, with a link to explain how to report fraud. When you click on the link, a worm will be downloaded to your machine and will steal your Ebay username & password info, which will instantly automatically log onto your Ebay account and change your password, locking you out of your own account. The scammers now have control of your account, and due to Ebay's crappy customer service, it is very difficult to get it fixed in a timely manner.

There are a lot of Ebay scams out there now, so you must be on your guard at all times. If you get an email from Ebay, do not *ever* give out any personal information. If you get customer emails about stuff you are selling when you have nothing for sale, *DO NOT* click on any links in those emails. If you get any suspicious emails of any kind, *DO NOT* give out any sensitive info, click on any links or open any attachments.

 

[astrogirl]

I get a phishing scam purporting to be from eBay or PayPal on a nearly daily basis.

Of course, I get 500 spams a day too, and most people don't get *that* much.