<VV> EBay heads up (no Corvair but very useful if you buy or sell any stuff on eBay!)

[Charles Lee]

Also double-check any links that look legit by placing the cursor WITHOUT 
CLICKING and looking at the status bar (at the bottom of the window).

For a link to be legit, the status bar (at the bottom of the window) should 
be the same as what you see in the email.

Some frauds a cheesy and easy to spot like www.ebayfeedback.com which is not 
eBay.

PayPal and Citiback, among others, are also targets of frauds and people 
fall for them every day, so they have incentive to try it.

There are even "victims" of the tsunami who are soliciting help to get money 
out of supposedly damaged banks with your help (for a "good faith' deposit 
from you, of course).

Someone even put a "credit card cleaner" next to an ATM for customers to 
use.  Guess what it did ?  Uh-huh, right, but quite a few people used it !

Have fun out there !

Chaz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Wildman" <k-wildman@onu.edu>
To: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>; 
<virtualvairs@corvair.org>; <VV-talk@corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> EBay heads up (no Corvair but very useful if you buy or 
sell Corvair stuff on eBay!)


> At 09:32 AM 1/16/2005, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote:
>>Just a little note to say that I have had no fewer than four of a 
>>disturbing new kind of eBay spoof today. At first I was semi-convinced 
>>they were real, but I just thought I would check anyway (with 
>>spoof@ebay.co), and they are definitely fake.
>>
>>Three were invitations to me to become an eBay power seller, but the 
>>clickable button showed an address that wasn't eBay. The fourth was 
>>cheeky! About a month ago my eBay ID was hijacked for about an hour, and 
>>someone started selling a stolen motorbike on it. Both I and eBay 
>>discovered within the hour and cancelled the sale, but it was scary (I 
>>guess someone had somehow got one of my passwords and hacked into the 
>>account). Anyway, I changed all the settings and it has been O.K. since.
>>
>>Today I got an email purporting to be from eBay, saying that as my account 
>>had recently been the subject of fraud they wanted me to verify all my 
>>account details. You've guessed it - that was fraud too! That one is 
>>cheeky, because it was believable, and I assume it came from the 
>>perpetrator of the original fraud (it could have just been random, but I 
>>have never had one like it before).
>>
>>Anyway, just a warning to forward ALL emails like that to eBay for 
>>checking. And if you need to change any of the personal details in 'My 
>>eBay', go to www.ebay.com and log in to do it from there, rather than 
>>clicking on links in emails.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Alan
>
> No legitimate e-mail will ask for personal information unless you have 
> specifically requested something from the site.  Any unsolicited request 
> for information is a case of "phishing" which seeks to gain that 
> information for illegal use.
>
> Be safe,
> Ken
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