eBay Warning!!

[GCerbera]

Whilst browsing eBay tonight, I stumbled upon a dangerous link.

If you see this - don't click the link!
2001 CHEVROLET C5 CORVETTE SILVER
Buy it now 1000 GBP

It takes you to an offsite 'ebay lookalike site' that asks you to log back in
with your user name and password.

I have reported it - thankfully I didn't login.

[GCerbera]

Blimey, they've removed it already - I'm impressed!

[ZR1cliff]

Good work ,ive seen and reported loads of scams concerning Corvettes and parts on ebay

[yellowvette]

One of my work mates fell for the old email "we need you to log in to your ebay account - follow the link" scam recently. Took him a couple of days of unusual activity on his account for him to click what had happened. So what ? Well, we work in IT
Come to think of it, I've not mentioned it to him lately, and there's plenty more mileage in that one yet

[ZR1cliff]

yellowvette said:

One of my work mates fell for the old email "we need you to log in to your ebay account - follow the link" scam recently. Took him a couple of days of unusual activity on his account for him to click what had happened. So what ? Well, we work in IT Come to think of it, I've not mentioned it to him lately, and there's plenty more mileage in that one yet

One way of telling if you recieve a spoof email from someone claiming to be ebay is,a proper ebay email will address you by your full name,false ones dont!..also ebay will never contact you in this way to ask for financial updates.

Ive even had a spoof email referring to my stuff ime bidding on asking me to log in and bid once ive been outbid...never log in in this way and always have an original page at hand,the minute you log in on a spoof you are compromised.

Keep all passwords different for ebay,paypal and hotmail for obvious reasons and make them as hard to understand as possible,changing on a regular bassis.

Some fraudulant ebay deals are easy to spot and an early indication will be that they will be miles off the beaten track and most likely state the item is at the opposite ends of the country...engines are a favourite item,ive seen and reported quite a few.

HTH.

[Cuban]

This one was very clever though, when you clicked on the link it took you to an ebay look-a-like
site and it was only the the odd looking url that alerted me.
There was no spoof email, it was set up within ebay itself.


This was the advert.

[yellowvette]

Spot on Cliff, absolutley right. Simple rule: never ever log in from a link in an email, no matter how convincing. Always go to the homepage from your browser, and on the log in screen look for "https" at the start of the URL. Occasionally I follow a link on a spoof email and put offensive stuff in username and password - all a bit childish but makes me feel better anyway - but they never have the https bit on the URL, although the rest of it often looks convincing.
This particular one does sound clever though, hidden away in ebay. What gives it away for me is that you have the auction listed on ebay.uk then have to log in to see it. This only ever happens if, for example, you are looking at ebay.com and are logged in - you put an item in your watch list, then try to place a bid on it from ebay.uk. Then you'd have to log in again because you are accessing an auction on the USA site, not the UK.

[Cuban]

At the time, it simply looked like my cookies had 'dropped' my login details as I'd not been
on eBay for a while, so all looked perfectly natural...apart from the url, which not everyone
would think to look at.

But credit to eBay, they were lightning fast in removing it within five mins of my email.
I just hope it hadn't caught anyone out before as I have no idea how long it had been up there.

[yellowvette]

Just remembered a weird experience I had with ebay: My wife got a couple of strange calls early one evening - "are you selling the drums on ebay ?". Having never used ebay at the time, and having no idea how it all worked, she said she had no idea what he was talking about and left it at that. He called again, she felt uncomfortable so didn't answer - he called a few more times. Anyway, I got home and she told me about it. He called again so I took the call intending to tell him to fk off. It turned out he was watching a drum kit that had less than 1 hour to go and the seller had put my number as his contact . He also had himself listed as being in Somerset. Caller said the contact number was only available to bidders, and after he had bid (no longer winning bidder)he had become suspicious, as the seller hadn't responded to any emails, so was calling to confirm it was all above board. "No mate", says I. "Thought not", says he. I thanked him for alerting me, got the auction up, alerted ebay, and within about 15 minutes they'd stopped it. Within an hour the fraudsters user id was history too. Full marks to ebay for that one. Never found out why my number was used - I reckon it was pin in phone directory time

>> Edited by yellowvette on Friday 12th May 09:30

[Cuban]

That was me selling the drum kit - wondered why I never got any calls...

Seriously, cheeky beggers aren't they, still thank goodness we can get word out to others
via forums such as these.

[ZR1cliff]

Heres an old one,notice it was being sold in Aberdeen,the next was advertised in Cornwall..not that theres anything wrong with these places it just makes it more difficult for the majority of the country to view,but they promise once theyve recieved your money they will send the goods on

http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topi

[ZR1cliff]

Hers the other LT5 one in cornwall,its worth a read as we found out the address and phone number then rang the person who promptly put the phone down,shortly afterwards the item was pulled by ebay.

http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topi

[chevy-stu]

Have you still got the drum kit then ???

[Cuban]

chevy-stu said:

Have you still got the drum kit then ???

No - the fraud squad have it.