ebay puzzle...

[user123]

Was on ebay yesterday, to buy a cover for my kindle, admit I left that window open while looking at other pages, came back to it and there was this notice, looking all very legit, from ebay, that for customer verification I'd need to give my credit card details, address, the lot. Thought NO WAY - I always pay by paypal, clicked off, restarted the ebay page, it had saved the cover I had been looking at, but no sign of this verification notice. Googled it and the info I got was confusing, yes, it said, ebay can ask for this if you buy knifes and sharps of any sort, - I didn't, but some said it was a spam - does anyone know anything about this?

 

[Scott]

Not seen that before MG sounds dodgy though. If ebay ask for info they always ask for it with your username. I never put my details into anything if they contact me and ask for it.

 

[Mike]

it's called phishing. i've had it a lot but not for some years now. it looks really legit but you can tell by the address bar it's fake. i used to report it to [email protected]

 

[user123]

I thought it was dodgy, too, Scott, and Mike, but the weird thing was that the pop-up notice appeared right on the screen as I had committed to buy and was about to pay, all of £3.85 :lol: it wasn't an email.... I recognize the phishing emails a mile off now..

 

[White Room]

Don't sound right, the other half was getting emails, supposedly from paypal, checking her details and she reported back to paypal and it was spam, so I would let ebay know about it.

 

[Mike]

probably a new type of scam, for every one that gets closed another starts

 

[user123]

Don't sound right, the other half was getting emails, supposedly from paypal, checking her details and she reported back to paypal and it was spam, so I would let ebay know about it.

Yeah, I get the paypal ones, too, all the time, and umpteen pretending to be different banks I don't even bank with, bladibla, consider myself pretty savvy with all of it, but that was really odd, to have that appear on the screen like that, looking absolutely in keeping with the ebay design, wording, spelling, graphics, all of it, looked absolutely sound - just not this ridiculous request!

 

[White Room]

The scammers are good at what they do, how many have been taken to give there bank details.

 

[user123]

I think it was Dan who once posted about not leaving several windows open at the same time, as that gives hackers or whatever they are called chance to sneak in there and take the page over or something along those lines? Makes me wonder if it was something like that... why can't these people if they are so clever to do all that just use all that cleverness for something legit?

Did you hear about Marks & Spencers and Tripadvisor's email databases being pinched as well today? Pfffffff ....

 

[doug boardley]

I think if you go into "my ebay" it'll give you a record of the legit messages that they've sent you G

 

[DHTiling]

As always,if in doubt never reply

Better safe than sorry .

 

[Del W]

MG if you pm me your ebay login details and credit card details I can sort it for you.Honest ! :devil2:


Data theft: users' identities are stolen by sellers who send out 'phishing' messages asking them to re-enter their passwords. The information is then sent to computer hackers, who use the IDs to buy and sell stolen goods and access credit card details.

 

[enduro]

Buying Knifes, getting Spam...sounds fishy!!! Ha Ha...sorry i will get my coat!!!!!

 

[user123]

Yes, super cautious me ... as said I didn't respond... but having a pop-up box in mid ebay-action was a new one on me... thanks Del, for being willing to save me.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Dan]

Sounds very dodgy.

When logging in ebay, always make sure you're logging into...

https://www.ebay.co.uk

and not something like

https://ebay-login.com

or something that could be even more similar to an ebay domain.

If in doubt, close your browser, open it up again and physically goto ebay again. Which it sounds like you did.

There will be loads more of this going on. Loads of emails will get stolen, loads have, they're worth quite a bit it seems if they're genuine email address databases and not just spam lists which most are inactive email addresses.

The world's biggest email spam network (which turned out to be just a couple of blokes) were spending a good 12,000 GPB on servers every month to control the millions of botnets that are on personal computers, have given up. Not because it wasn't working, or they got caught (which they did only after they stopped and let the code run itself which left traces to the controlling servers - something they'd have been on top of if they were actively running it). About November last year all spam networks reported 50 to 80% drop in Global email spam. turned out these couple of guys controlled about 70% of the whole world's spam.

For a while (up until about feb) nobody knew why they'd given up, as it was working so well for them, possibly making millions a month but almost impossible to tell.

Well, now, there's suspicion that they've simply moved on to something bigger and better, and it's highly likely to involve actual phishing and credit card fraud. Rather than just spamming and selling fake pharmaceuticals.

So watch out for an increase in these types of websites.