catesta Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 I already sent an email to ebay to verify if this is legit or not, bit I'm curious if anyone here has seen anything similar. <b>Dear eBay User,</b> It has become noticeable that another party has been trying to corrupt your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement policy listed: 4. Bidding and Buying You are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller if you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats or are the highest bidder as described below. If you are the highest bidder at the end of an auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller, or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement. You received this notice from eBay because an item was bought fraudulently and it has come to our attention that your account may cause interruptions with other eBay members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account. Please verify your account or the account may become disabled. please <a HREF="http://69.1.65.162/e/ebayintel/"> Click here to verify</a> Sincerely, Bobby Williams Ebay Fraud Department <b>Case Number</b> :YCSBNE When I clicked the verification link, all the fields requested are for financial information. I'm callin' it bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 BS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Complete and total B.S. If it had been real, eBay would have directed you to log on to your account and "verify", NOT do so through an email. This is a tip off every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 (edited) Sounds a lot like a recent "Household Bank/Best Buy" scam -- similar e-mails went out to Best Buy credit card holders claiming they were investigating fraud, posing as "Best Buy", asking for financial information -- and then ripping off those who answered. Best Buy has had to do a LOT of P.R. to explain that they had nothing to do with it -- but still no explanation of who hacked in or otherwise had access to account holders addresses. [You can read more about it HERE] BE CAREFUL! Edited September 11, 2003 by maren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted September 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 I replied with . I already got a response from ebay saying it was bogus. This is the first time I ever got the one claiming fraud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Why would Ebay use a free web hoster for their user accounts? Look at the page http://69.1.65.162/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted September 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Good point, I didn't even notice that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 I replied with . Hey Jim! I know you're busy having babies and all, but how about a mini version of this as a clickable smiley?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted September 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 I've got these... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Why would Ebay use a free web hoster for their user accounts? Look at the page http://69.1.65.162/ This free web hosting site itself seems to be a fake. The official site of the company mentioned on the page is http://www.hostdepartment.com/ , and it has company information, contact addresses and phone numbers, whereas the faked site has not. Significantly, traceroute on the IP 69.1.65.162 fails to give a result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 I've gotten two Ebay fraud emails in the last week. Sent them both to Ebay and got replies confirming their bogus-ness. Safe rule of thumb: Go to ebay.com and log in and see if there's any warning there. If there isn't, you're fine and it's a fraud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 I've gotten two Ebay fraud emails in the last week. Ditto. I deleted them, suspecting they were bogus, and figured ebay would let me know if there was a problem when I tried to bid on something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 I replied with . Hey Jim! I know you're busy having babies and all, but how about a mini version of this as a clickable smiley?? Hey Jim, What about it? This could come into some good use when Johnny goes over the rails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 Oh yeah? Well, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 Since it's still Sept. 11th... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacman Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 (edited) got one like that last week. replied that i was going to forward the e-mail to a buddy of mine in the FBI. LOL, having me as a buddy would probably keep most people out of the FBI. i then told them to EMF. <edit for horrific spelling> Edited September 12, 2003 by jacman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted September 13, 2003 Report Share Posted September 13, 2003 The same thing is now happening to bank customers too: Scam targets Barclays customers (BBC News) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STAX Posted September 13, 2003 Report Share Posted September 13, 2003 Last July I received a official e-mail from EBAY saying that someone was trying to change my password. They wanted to verify if it was me. They also had the IP # where the request originated. I replied that it was not me and that was not my IP #. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Glad to learn I wasn't the only one to get a spoof ebay email. First one I've had in three years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I keep getting spoof eBay e-mails, about three or four a week. Already got two today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted September 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I got another one today, this one linked me to another bullshit website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I forwarded them all to spoof@ebay.com, without opening the links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I was getting them daily for a while, but I haven't received any since I replied to one with "You know, all I do with these if forward them to eBay, so we're both wasting our time." I don't know if that worked, or they just moved on anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I keep getting spoof eBay e-mails, about three or four a week. Already got two today... Hans, until recently you used your email address as user name on Ebay. That's where they got it from. Also from users who show it on their auction page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 I received a spoof Ebay email today, requesting me to update my user data. It would have transferred the login/password data to the Ebay sign-in page, but also passed it to a script hosted on this hacker page : http://www.44rgh.net (you can safely click the link and have a look). The mail has "aw-confirm@ebay.com" in the sender field (which can easily be faked), but came from a german Deutsche Telekom dialup account. This can be checked in the mail header (in Outlook, you have to go to the Message options to see it): Received: from ebay.com (unverified [217.226.103.***]) (ebay.com is faked, the true sender identity is the IP address, part of which I have omitted here) One fact is strange: the "To:" field contains my Ebay name, my email address and the reference to an auction I have won. This was probably added to divert suspicion to the seller in this auction (one of the 50+ ebay users to know my email address). I forwarded the email to the Ebay security department, which now has a tutorial on how to detect spoof emails: http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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