davegtt

Right, Ive just receieved this email to my works address.....

Dear eBay User,
We regret to inform you, that we had to block your eBay account
because we have been notified that your account may have been compromised by outside parties.

Our terms and conditions you agreed to state that your account must always be under your control
or those you designate at all times. We have noticed some activity related to your account that
indicates that other parties may have access and or control of your information in your account.

Please be aware that until we can verify your identity no further access to your account will be allowed.As a result,Your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted.To start using your eBay account fully,Please uptake and verify your information by clicking below

http://signin.ebay.com/aw-c gi/eBayISAPI.dll?Verify

Regards,

eBay Member Service

**Please Do Not Reply To This E-mail As You Will Not Receive A Response**


It looks very ebay official, do u think its just some cr@p or is this genuine, Im gonna be pi55ed off since I only use the acct every now and then and Im hoping to buy something that runs out tonight so I'll be mighty peed off if theyve suspended my acct

MattW

Scam!!!

Go to www.ebay.co.uk and sign in. I'm sure you'll find everything in order.

OllyK

Never click on links sent in e-mails like this. Go directly to ebay by typing the address in your browser. Log in as normal, I expect you will find everything is OK.

Alas

Probably a scam. Just go to ebay, sign in and see. Do NOT use the link.
Cheers
Alas

TurboKitty

Smells like a scam to me. Don't click any links in the e-mail. Go to the Ebay site by the recognised address and check it out there.

De Warrenne

report it too - theres a spoof@ebay.co.uk (or similar) address somewhere on the site

PG

SCAM

davegtt

aye just worked it out, sorry, got in a bit of a panic since the email was at work although just realised Im signed up to ebay using my hotmail acct so its obviously cr@p thanks for the speedy replies thou

Mark Miwurdz

Sophisticated phishing effort. For every 999 people who delete this mail (like you should), one uninformed soul will reply in good faith.

Cheers
Kav

Jo Peters

I had something very similar - looked very official like from e-bay saying that someone had tried to purchase something using my account name and password. Told me to click on button below (to enable my account to be accessed), which I did and came up with what looked exactly like the e-bay sign in page but in the bottom left of the toolbar (sorry not very comp techy) it was a completely different web address ie. not www.ebay.com/signin (or whatever it should be).

When I took the web address on the bottom toolbar and pasted into the address bar at the top of the page, it went to the usual "this page could not be found" type of wording!!!

Reported to e-bay immediately. Luckily I was suspicious and did not use the sign in page that it directed me to.

Jo

Doh .... just read the post above!! Might be helpful to others though

MrsP1Fanatic

I had one yesterday - I E-Mailed eBay with that Spoof address and they have confirmed that it is a scam!

DO NOT ENTER ANY DETAILS AT ALL :O(

Do these idiots think we are stupid enough to actually do this!

Bex

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

I had a few of those and ignored them because they are a scam then I got suckered by another The following day my account was hijacked and now I have no ebay account

thecirsch

Sorry for being thick (no change there then ). But why would someone want my e-bay account?

MrsP1Fanatic

What they are asking you to do is click on a link on their E-Mail and enter your details (Credit Cards, Bank Details, Address - EVERYTHING). This is nothing to do with your eBay a/c!

They just want your details to scam you and spend your money

eBay have informed me that they are dealing with this issue and that they need anyone who gets one of these E-Mail to let them know asap.

Freak

so they can sell things that dont exist....normally high value items.

1- forward that to spoof@ebay.co.uk
2- delete it
3- log into www.ebay.co.uk and read their safety pages, and what they say about the emails that are genuinely sent from ebay. there are a couple of things that stand out a mile that that one is a fake.

ChrisB

So they can sell something that doesn't exist, take the money from the buyer and run.

Leaving your account in the mire...

ChrisB

eBay can't deal with it though.

As long as there is an eBay user who doesn't understand a phising / social engineering attack, accounts will continue to get hacked and people ripped off in some form.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

My account was reported by me at midnight and was closed by ebay the following morning the hijackers were listing 40 foot camper vans in america for $1500 They were supposed to 2004 models too Other than **** me off they achieved nothing