Speaking of ebay

Re: Speaking of ebay

Ernie Miller

>log into you eBay account there will be a link somewhere at the top that says My messages ?? new messages if it came from eBay it will be in there if it isn't it if a PHISH I get so much of this crap it is a pain to deal with. The changes they have made may help the buyers but sellers will never be free of it. I get so many people asking when they are going to get the BMW or where do I send payment or what was the final value 3-4 a day and they keep on comming. Most I can tell right off others I copy and paist the auction # into the search to see what it is it's never mine. Because I see I can't set my spam blocker to tight so I get more than my share of the usual adds also.

Re: Speaking of ebay

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks, Ernie, great idea. I checked and it wasn't from ebay. What a relief. :)

Pam

Re: Speaking of ebay

Paul Kierstead

>Did they provide a link to change your notification preferences? That would be an interesting phishing scheme; kind of irritate you via spam, provide you an "out" (where you have to log in). Someone put more then average work into this for swiping eBay accounts.

Re: Speaking of ebay

wayne anderson

>Pam,

Whenever you get a "pfishy" message like that from eBay or PayPal, just forward it to:

spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com, then delete the message.

They will handle it from there. Don't worry about if it is genuine or phony. It's not worth the hassle or risk. They (paypal or ebay) will send you a message saying that they will investigate. -wayne

Re: Speaking of ebay

Mike Hamilton

>Hi Pam,

I had a similar experience today. All the urls on mine were click3.ebay..... Really unsettling as they had my full name, my ebay id and the description of the last ebay purchase I made. As in your case, they offered other items 'that might appeal to (me)'

Trying to be careful,

Mike Hamilton

Plainfield, IN

Yeah, good graphics, too. No link for prefs.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

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Looks like we both got the same message.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

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Re: Speaking of ebay

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks, Wayne. I usually simply delete these messages; but this one came to my ebay user id at my ebay email, which was weird. Normally they come to my main emal address. The other thing is that I thought it possible ebay was doing it in consonance with their changes vis a vis user id's in bidding. Cute if they had cut off transparency for us only to use our bidding history for their marketing. Yeah, I'm fully paranoid when it comes to dealing with monopolies like our gov't, Microsoft, and ebay/Paypal.

Pam

Re: Looks like we both got the same message.

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>I got it as well Pam, but I didn't look at it too long. It was unsolicited so I merely deleted it as I do with all unsoliced stuff that is sent to me.

Scammers and schemers everywhere, that is why I'm surprised that somebodies would be gullible enough to respond to an e-mail from somebody claiming to be a seller and offering the item at the price they had bid.

Todd O.

Re: Looks like we both got the same message.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Todd, let me repeat, this email came to my "more or less hidden from everyone but ebay and paypal and one or two other vendors" email address. This was what was most alarming, accompanied with my bidding history from several months ago. If it had come to pam@pinehill.com, I wouldn't have given it a second thought, that fact alone would have defined it as scam/spam.

To be honest, it still concerns me. This miscreant appears to be getting very close to my password, which could cost me a lot of time and perhaps money.

Pam

Re: Looks like we both got the same message.

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Ah, I see more clearly now Pam, it wasn;t the message itself so much, but where it was sent to that is the cause of your concerns. Yes, yes, I see now. Sorry I missed that.

I went back into my Trash Can and found that message, and it was just like yours. I than went to e-bay and checked my Messages, but it wasn't there. Perhaps because I don't fool with Paypal the scammers haven't found me yet. That is the reason that I don't mess with electronic methods of payment of any type. The more financial info you put on the air, the more chance of getting scammed is my way of thinking. I pay all my household bills via snail mail, and my e-bay purchases via Money Orders. Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid, but hey, in todays world I think it best to be to at least a small degree, tho as I age I'm finding more and more things that make me go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Hope everything works out for you Pam. Sounds like you may want to consider changing your password too.

T.O.

Re: Looks like we both got the same message.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Oh, yeah, already changed my password. It sounds like the scammers have already found you, electronic payments or not. (: I don't feel I have time to muck about at the post office habitually getting money orders. I suspect that Paypal is one of the most secure sites around, if for no other reason, they'd be dead if they got hit.

Pam

Source of info?

Sandor in middletown, DE

>sounds to me like they didn't get the info from you or ebay, but rather from a recent seller from whom you purchased. That seller will have sent you emails to your ebay email which would have the auction item(s) as well as your ebay account id.

So your account is probably safe - all they have is your name and ID.

Change all passwords

Ernie Miller

>Regularly! I though Pam worked IT back in the day and should know this. But for all the rest of you out there you should be changing your password monthly if not more often. I know it is a hassell but you need to do it. and if it is a system or place you visit alot that has any info about you at all more is better when it comes to changing passwords. You need to develope a system for changing and remembering them that is not electronic. I change my eBay weekley but I am on alot.

Re: Source of info?

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>My best guess is that they got the info via the same portal that the sniping services use, or perhaps from the sniping service itself. There were five transactions they listed, all from different sellers and on different dates. If they were using the portal and got this info from ebay, I'm not all that worried about their getting the password; but if from the sniping service, I am worried because the sniper has my password on file and "may" not have as secure a system as ebay; so I changed my password to be safe.

I think it's significant that the transactions were all at least two months old.

Pam