Spot and Control Spoof on ebay

There are three main ways people
get ripped off when it comes to
trading on eBay. This includes .By a buyer .By a seller
.Stolen vital information through
fraudulent emails.
"phished" emails claiming to
be from ebay.
"Emails such as this, commonly
referred to as
"phished"
messages, are sent in an attempt
to collect sensitive personal or
financial information from the
recipients."
They look very much like regular
ebay emails, and are
usually telling you about a
"problem" with your account,
your password, your shipment,
your payment. The mail might come in this form: -Your credit card has been declined
-your payment for
seller fees can not be processed
-we are confirming your bid on
this outrageously priced item you would never want. It could be in any of these format or some thing close to them. The question now is
How can some one identify a spoof?
1. For starters, you need to know that anything that
throughly come from ebay will appears not
just in your regular email, but also in
your my messages on the ebay
site. Any email sent to your
registered eBay email address
from eBay or from another eBay
member via eBay's member-to-
member communication system
will now appear in My Messages.
Just remember, if you get an
email to your registered eBay
email address that looks like it's
from eBay about a problem with
your account or requesting
personal information, check My
Messages first. If it's not there,
it's a fake email.
B. Consider the link that accompanies the email even though the link in your
email reads ebay.com, if you hold your
cursor over the link (WITHOUT
clicking)
and look at the bottom left of
your browser window, you will
see the URL the link really sends
you to. It usually is something
like
ebaydotcomsomestupidnamedot
net. Ebay and paypal's URLs will
have a "/ " after .com if the
URL is long, not another com
name.
C. Your best solution when you
find an email that you are
unsure about? Click forward and
send it to spoof@ebay.com (if
the emails claims to be from
ebay) ebay team will get back to
you, usually within minutes,
letting you know if the email is
real or not. So why take chances?
Forward suspicious emails to
them and let them sort it out if
you are unsure.
D. Remember if there truly is a
problem with your ebay account you will always
be able to find that info out on
ebay websites. So
there is never a need to take a
chance with bogus emails.
Here is info from ebay on the
subject "If you still have any
doubt about whether an email
message is from eBay, please
forward it immediately to
spoof@ebay.com. Do not
respond to it or click any of the
links. Do not remove the original
subject line or change the email
in any way when you forward
it to us.
If you have already entered
sensitive personal information,
financial information, or your
password into a Web site based
on a request from a spoofed
email, you should take
immediate action to protect
your
identity and all of your online
accounts. We have developed an
eBay Help page with valuable
information regarding the steps
you should take to protect
yourself.

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