Ebay Scams Being Taken to New Level

[Brownian Motion]

I received this email puportedly from Ebay. It looked very convincing. It used my real name as well as my ebay user name, and the web address links in the email were disguised as legitimate ebay sites. But there is no record of this communication from Ebay in "My Ebay". My theory is that someone from whom I've purchased a CD on ebay or Halfcom kept a record of my name, user name, and email address, and either used that information himself to try to scam me or sold it to scammers. Either way, this is a disturbing trend; it shows planning and organization beyond the simple-minded scams I'm so used to receiving.

eBay sent this message to Al Doe (backpages).

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Dear backpages,

We notice that you have earned eBay Anything Points that you could use toward a purchase on eBay. Unfortunately, we've not been able to credit you with these points because you have not yet opened your eBay Anything Points account.

In July 2005, eBay announced that the eBay Anything Points program will be discontinued as of February 28. Unless you act now to open an account, your points will be forfeited.

To enroll in the eBay Anything Points program please visit the eBay Anything Points homepage ( http://anythingpoints.ebay.com) and register with the eBay ID provided in the subject line of this email and a confirmed email address on your PayPal account. Your Anything Points will automatically be deposited into your PayPal account.

For more information regarding the phase-out of the eBay Anything Points program, please see the Anything Points home page. eBay Anything Points must be used in conjunction with a valid PayPal account and in accordance with the eBay Anything Points Loyalty Program Terms and Conditions available at http://anythingpoints.ebay.com/terms.html.

Regards,

eBay

[Dan Gould]

Anyone responding to any message in their email, whether it appearss to be from ebay or paypal or whatever, deserves what they get.

Never follow a link in such an email message.

Go to the website yourself and log onto your account there.

I hope you sent this to spoof@ebay.com

[Claude]

Anyone responding to any message in their email, whether it appearss to be from ebay or paypal or whatever, deserves what they get.

Scams have hit five million people in the UK

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Lately, I've been following the links in the E-mails. I have a blast with them!

Username: FUCKUAHOLE

Password: EATSHITANDDIE

Social Security number: 6666666666

Funny... none of the screens ever come back and tell me that my login information was incorrect.

Next time you get one and you're really worried that it may be real, just follow the link and enter garbage. If it takes the garbage, you have your answer.

However, E-mails never come from these services asking you to log in. They only point you to their website.

Kevin

[Dan Gould]

Lately, I've been following the links in the E-mails. I have a blast with them!

Username: FUCKUAHOLE

Password: EATSHITANDDIE

Social Security number: 6666666666

Funny... none of the screens ever come back and tell me that my login information was incorrect.

Next time you get one and you're really worried that it may be real, just follow the link and enter garbage. If it takes the garbage, you have your answer.

However, E-mails never come from these services asking you to log in. They only point you to their website.

Kevin

I've thought about doing that, but I have this fear that even visiting such a site is going to do something to infect my machine or worse yet, find personal info on it, even if I enter the username and password you suggest.

[Stereojack]

Lately, I've been following the links in the E-mails. I have a blast with them!

Username: FUCKUAHOLE

Password: EATSHITANDDIE

Social Security number: 6666666666

Funny... none of the screens ever come back and tell me that my login information was incorrect.

Next time you get one and you're really worried that it may be real, just follow the link and enter garbage. If it takes the garbage, you have your answer.

However, E-mails never come from these services asking you to log in. They only point you to their website.

Kevin

I've thought about doing that, but I have this fear that even visiting such a site is going to do something to infect my machine or worse yet, find personal info on it, even if I enter the username and password you suggest.

Me, too. I get daily phishes from "Ebay" and "Paypal" and lately have been forwarding them to Ebayspoofs. I'm tempted to respond with obscenity in the blank fields, but I don't want to catch any viruses.