Watch out! Clever eBay scam!

[wanty1974]

Here's a new one for you - especially dodgy if you happen to sell on eBay.

Email comes through asking you a question about an item you have for sale, except you don't have it for sale, so you click 'respond to question' or any link to the item in question where you are asked to sign in. At this point scammer gets your eBay ID and password and merrily goes on his way to stitch up your account. All pages are authentic eBay layouts.

I just about avoided falling for it, it looks really really authentic!

[Jinx]

I had one of those at the beginning of the week - I didn't fall for it as I have never listed anything on ebay ever. Though I did log into ebay from the main site to see if anyone had cloned my ID.

[SlidingSideways]

Had a similar one this week saying I'd got a non-payment complaint lodged against me for an item I'd never bought.

Seem's that they're getting inventive now that the "Sign in to update your details" scam's are pretty well publicised.

[morrisman]

SlidingSideways said:

Had a similar one this week saying I'd got a non-payment complaint lodged against me for an item I'd never bought. Seem's that they're getting inventive now that the "Sign in to update your details" scam's are pretty well publicised.

Just for the three or four people in the UK who don't know: you should never answer any Ebay question by e mail unless it appears in your 'My Ebay' messages box as well as your normal e mail. If it isn't in your 'My Ebay' it isn't real.

If in doubt, keep out.

[simpo two]

You can always forward it to [e-mail]. I did this once and they got back to me about an hour later.

For PayPal (and maybe eBay) genuine e-mails begin 'Dear (Your name)' and not 'Dear Valued Customer' etc. But yes, always go to the proper site before responding.

[njw 77]

My BiL had one this week all but begging him to allow them to send money to his paypal account for an item they had bought, although the BiL never had any listings running.

As has been said, only ever log into your account through eBay's home page, never via a link

[touchingcloth]

The best ever scam I have seen (if you can call them best !!) was actually carried out from within a genuine ebay auction listing. They had basically managed to make the whole page a clicky link so whereever you clicked you were sent to a fake but super realistic login page, as you were already in ebay proper it did just make you think that you had been thrown back to login again (which ebay always seems to ask you to do regardless of if you tick the "keep me logged in" box) Firefox showed up the real address of the fake login page but I.E users still saw the correct ebay address at the top....very clever, got to be on your guard.

[Parrot of Doom]

Just download the Ebay toolbar, problem solved.

[koenig999]

Blige!

I just sent an e-mail answering some questions about my record sales :

http://my.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll


Have checked, and it was in My Messages as well, so that was OK.


Koenig