Alert! Very tricky very EVIL new eBay SPOOF scam that almost had me fooled! Beware!

[slai]

My e-mail blockage has finally been cleared again, yay 8D! I got 128 new messages, MEEP! Among those messages, I found a new VERY suspicious e-mail that supposedly came from bidconfirm@ebay.com, which is eBay's account for sending bid confirmations. At the top, it said I had placed a bid on eBay auction #220016866696, a lot of Imation data

Comments

[jillthepill]

I've noticed those Spoofs get more and more sophisticated all the time, and I always report them as well. I get them more and more, it seems, but I always keep track of EVERYTHING I do through both sites, although honestly, I guess all it would take is having a would-be scammer set up a legit auction, have people bid, then somehow trick them into reading/reply to "phish" E-mails. I'm sure it's been tried. It's scary stuff! @_@

[slai]

Hi THE Jill,

Yeah, usually, the e-mails say they're from some site with a slightly different name than eBay, but this time, the sender looked like it was from eBay itself o-O! This is the same method someone is using to send me SPAM once or twice a day via hand which my syster administrator can't block because it really does look legitimate --;!

[tweedlekeys]

I've gotten some of those and some 'Non-paying bidder' messages from "eBay" as well. I usually visit eBay often enough that I could tell if such a thing had happened and even before reaching the fake links, the full headers of the email tell the real story. Really, I always do my eBay business by going to eBay directly and not following any links in email.

[slai]

Hi Katy,

Wow, then I must have been really lucky NOT getting these o-o!

[rous]

Yeah, there's one regarding a Dell laptop that I've gotten a few times. Luckily these never hold up under close scrutiny.

[slai]

Hi Chandra,

This particular auction just ended recently. Do the phishers set up the auctions too, or do they just choose auctions at random for their scheme?

[bordfroyal]

Not so new...I got a couple of those fakemails about two years ago and I hadn't visited ebay in years. Since I wasn't a member, I had to go through a lonnnng click-this-click-this-click-this to report it. Good grief... Since re-singing up, I've gotten hit about once. (shrug) I agree about the email headers. If you can get those, you can do some investigating on your own by plunking IP addresses one at a time into the ARIN search box and going on from there. But I ramble. :)

[slai]

Hi bordfroyal,

Wow, I must have lucked out then. This is the first of this type of phishing scheme I've received so far. I usually get the dead-giveaway-it's-a-scam e-mails from Pay FIEND/Pall phishers who don't know that I terminated my Pay FIEND/Pall account 7-8 years ago under a different e-mail address >8D!

[slai]

Hi Meredith,

Wow, I wish my e-mail program was that smart XP!

[bordfroyal]

Yeah, what email program is that?

[slai]

Hi Meredith,

A friend of mine, bordfroyal, replied to my comment asking what e-mail program you use ^^;. I don't think you'll get an alert about his comment since it was a reply to mine ;b!