I got this email:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.https://signin.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields)Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation.
Regards,
Morris Franklin
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team
I seem to remember a fraud alert which said that these e-mails are fraudulant. I did not hit the link, but I did go to the regular ebay login, and found no notices.
What do you guys think?
Posted by Tom Jefferson at July 29, 2004 03:24 PMYeah, that's a fake. eBay will never send you a complex url like that. Their policy is to direct you verbally where you need to go from their main page.
Posted by Jim at July 29, 2004 04:26 PMOh yeah, it's a fake.
You can tell by right-clicking on the link, looking at 'Properties', and you'll see that even though the link looks like it goes to eBay, it actually goes to another site - probably in Asia.
And if you're really curious, click on the link and it'll take you to a page that looks exactly like eBay.
Posted by Mad Mikey at July 29, 2004 07:29 PMYeah, this is called Phishing. If you ever receive an email from anyplace you do business. Never click the link (unless you just want to go see what phisher site looks like) - use your own bookmark to go to the real site and email the people at the business to see if they know about this type of email going around.
Sometimes they will want you to forward them a copy of the offending email - other times they'll just say "no it wasn't us, don't listen to them".
Mostly these are used for ebay, paypal, credit cards, and some of the bigger banks. Haven't heard of an Amazon one yet, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Posted by Teresa at July 29, 2004 09:06 PMWhat everyone said. I'd only change one thing Teresa said. If I want to check it out, I'd type in the URL myself, and not rely on a bookmark. It might take me three more seconds, but I think those three seconds would be worth it.
Posted by Victor at July 30, 2004 03:31 PMwhatever, i don't know, it had me stressed, right before christmas.
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