Ebay Email Scam

[el_clubber]

Hi Folks,

I'd like to make yous aware of this email scam before anyone gets stung by it.

I received a email yesterday from [email protected] [[email protected]]

with the subject heading

Your ebay account could be suspend

In the body of the message was the following;

We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if
you
don't resolve your problems. To resolve this problems please click here
and
login to your account in order to resolve your account problems. If
your
problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a
period
of 3-4 days, after that it will be again operational.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning,
temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership
and
refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions
may
cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We
may
also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any
information you provide to us.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are
prohibited
from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new
account.

Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your
agreed-upon
obligation to pay any fees you may owe to ebay.

Regards,

Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.



--
eBay



An html attachment named Informations.html was also present, when opened this takes you to the default ebay sign in screen, well so you think. I didn't log in but assuming i did my account details would have been no doubt logged and sent to the creator of this scam.

The reasoning behind all this is unsure to me, as they couldn't gain access to credit card details but I'm assuming they would use these account to create bogus auctions ripping peeps off and laying the blame on the actual account holders.

Well yous have been warned... Spread the word..

 

[Zooropa]

good post m8,thanx for the warning :Clap:

 

[allroad]

Thanks for the warning have you contacted e bay about this?

 

[cosmoss]

I'd forward the email to ebay investigations m8 and let them look into it... although I'm sure somebody will have already done this...

 

[el_clubber]

Yup I forwarded the email just before I put this post up, they got back to me yesterday morning asking me to reply back with the message source because they don't open attachements but hey at least someone's looking into it.

 

[el_clubber]

updated!!

Just got a mail back from ebay, please read and be advised.

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to report this email to us. We sincerely
appreciate your efforts to help us keep our site safe and fun.

Please know that this email was not sent by eBay, and is not endorsed by eBay in any way. We have thoroughly investigated your report and assure
you that we have taken the appropriate action in accordance with our
site policies. Our actions may include issuing a warning, temporary or
indefinite suspension, or terminating the membership.

As you may know, we are unable to provide specific information regarding the result of our investigation to other eBay members. Please understand that this is for the protection of all eBay users.

Now that you have been contacted by this user, you may want to consider
adding the member's email address to your "blocked" list and be sure to
take advantage of any junk email filters provided by your email program.

Please be aware that there are emails being sent that lead to websites
asking you to submit personal information such as your credit card
number or your eBay password. These are fake or spoofed emails or
websites and are not sent or operarted by eBay. If you receive or
suspect you have received such an email, do not respond to it. Please
immediately send a copy of it to [email protected]

For more information regarding safety with your eBay UK account visit
our User Account Protection Page by following this link:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/account_protection.html

Thank you for your time.

Best wishes,

Darren Osmond
eBay Trust and Safety
______________________________
eBay
Your Personal Trading Community (tm)

=============================================

Password and Account Protection:

eBay will never ask you for your password and will never ask you for
your personal financial details in an email.

There are several steps that you can take to protect your password:

- Avoid using on eBay the same password that you use on your email
account.
- Use the same precautions for your email account that you use on your - eBay account - carefully protect both.
- Avoid using the same password that you use on other websites
- Do not share your password with others.
- Review the privacy policies of third parties that offer you services
to determine how your information will be protected.
- If you believe that someone has obtained your password, change it
immediately and contact eBay.

For more information please go to:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/account_protection.html


All seems like sound advise to me, altho it might be an idea to warn peeps well in advance of receiving this sort of mail.

I hope this helps someone.

 

[Rat]

Thanks for the update