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Careful of this "supposed" scam

SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460
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I just got this email

FIP NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension  
           
           Dear eBay Member,
           We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due to the violation of our site policy below:
           False or missing contact information - Falsifying or omitting your name, address, and/or telephone number (including use of fax machines pager numbers, modems or disconnected numbers).
           Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This prohibition includes the registering of a new account.
           Please note that any seller fees due to eBay will immediately become due and payable.
           eBay will charge any amounts you have not previously disputed to the billing method currently on file.  


                 you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.  
         

         
           http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&ssPageName=h:h:sin:US
         
           We appreciate your support and understating, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.

           Thank you for your patience in this matter.

           Respectfully,
           Trust and Safety Department
           eBay Inc.
             
               
         
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now, I don't know wtf that's supposed to mean, but I've already clicked the link and signed in

Luckily I don't have credit card or paypal information saved on my account.

I'm just letting you guys know that this most likely is not an email from ebay, (check the word "understating") and is some way to get your password/etc.

So be careful. These guys are getting good. Had me fooled for a while.

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Comments

  • DekronDekron Member UncommonPosts: 7,359

    I got it about 3 days ago. I tracked his IP and got all his info and forwarded it to ebay and the FBI. The idiot was stupid enough to have a website development company with his picture on it. ::::02::

    edit: BTW Murt, you need to a) logon and change your pass, or b) never use the account again.

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  • ploobieploobie Member Posts: 2
    Hope that guy got what was comin to himimage

  • DerfelCadarnDerfelCadarn Member Posts: 875
    Man, I get ebay spams almost once a week now. Normally they are the "due to a security failure, we need your info again". I haven't seen this one yet though.

  • sqwigginssqwiggins Member Posts: 286
    i just saw this on cnn so now i just ignore all ebay mails or any thing asking to renew info if they realy need it i will go to the website and see

    its good to know that if I ever need attention all I need to do is die

  • Flying750Flying750 Member Posts: 85

    Hey Murt...thanks for this heads up!

    I work for eBay and I am at work now so let me go talk with our trust and safety management and find out if this is a known scam (as they track many like this one on a daily basis). As the email states that it is from the Trust and Safety department, I will find out what the case is. If they are not aware of it yet then now they will know (although I bet they already do know).image


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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    sweetimage

    Great to know how much help just posting something on a forum can provide!

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  • dsorrentdsorrent Member CommonPosts: 1,627

    Originally posted by dekron
    I got it about 3 days ago. I tracked his IP and got all his info and forwarded it to ebay and the FBI. The idiot was stupid enough to have a website development company with his picture on it. ::::02::


    LOL Damn funny!


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  • bhugbhug Member UncommonPosts: 944

    05.01.16
    I have had spam & scam emails forwarded to abuse@ebay.com & webmaster@ebay.com refused and notice given they will not bother withthem. Ebay gets a cut from the problematic paypay scam banking service and basically refuses to act on other egregious ebay members, and offers little or no relief to scamed members; other than block a member that has already profited from scam sales.
    The scam you mention I reported over two years ago, and that notification sent to ebay was at that time refused. I think now one as an ebay member, must log-in and from in site only there a complaint can be filed. Ebay like paypal makes it quite difficult for normal internet users to send them documented abuses, especially if that abuse means the site has to utalize expensive resources to investigate & prosecute abusers of their service.
    Notorious spamer ISP and other malicious companies disable their abuse@ email because they do not care about getting information / complaints about their subscribers.

    I get a few hundred scam e-mails a week, everything from banks asking for personal information to the Paypal and eBay scam's.
    I find that scammers are getting more sophisticated and often employ obscenely long URL's in an attempt to confuse people. After all, if it's long and complicated it has to be legit right?
    Well here's a little trick on how to find out the real web address of the page you're looking at. Simply copy the Javascript code below and paste it into your browsers URL and press enter.

    javascript:alert("Actual URL address: " + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/");

    A little gray box should pop up which displays the name of the web server that is currently displayed. Now you can verify the address of any website you browse to see if it really is who it says it is.

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