New creative ebay phishing scam

[Jazzmoose]

A word to the wise for those of you who sell on ebay: if you get an email question from someone about an auction, go to ebay and answer it through "My Messages"; the latest phony email I've been getting is an ambiguous "How much is shipping to CA?" for a nonexistant auction.

[Dan Gould]

I've gotten a ton of those recently, Mark. They made the page look exactly as if it was an Ebay generated message, with the link to "reply now" of course going to their phishing website. But the really funny thing was that they left - or made up - the link for the user Id of the "sender" to actually go to Ebay, and that page revealed that this person wasn't from "North Carolina", he was from Bulgaria and was no longer a registered user, and had less than stellar feedback.

I couldn't believe they'd make up a page for data gathering to look like Ebay and wouldn't make up another that would back them up as legitimate, and seemingly trustworthy, members.

[Rooster_Ties]

Get these all the time.

Get 'em at work too, where I've *never* used my work e-mail address for eBay, or for any of half-a-dozen banks I get "we're gonna close your account unless you log in" messages too.

I work for a very small not-for-profit, and their e-mail filtering of spam is practically noexistent -- so I get tons of phishing stuff, all the time -- at an address I've almost never used in e-mail dealings, or for signing up for stuff on-line.

[BERIGAN]

Mark, I was thinking the same thing the other day as someone asked me a very obvious question about a car part I was selling. I'd respond via ebay so they wouldn't have my email. Turned out they did win the part.

Oh, I also got a scary paypal spoof email that had my full name at the top of the email, not the typical "dear valued Paypal member"