There's a new email scam floating around - BEWARE! Emails are going out from an illegitimate organization steal your ebay ID and more! The email requests that you pay your fees or your ebay account will be terminated. The link provided in the email takes you to what looks like an ebay webpage, and then requests that you sign in. The problem is that its not actually an eBay webpage, and its not on an ebay server. The server then asks you for personal information, including credit card info.

One of the ways you can tell this is fraud is because the email is addressed to "Dear eBay customer". The second is that they are requesting credit card info - something that should already be set up in your account.

Here is the email text


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eBay request: Pay your fees to eBay



Dear eBay customer,

Due to our new services you have to pay your eBay fees.You can pay with your credit/debit card. We will ask for your credit/debit card only once.We will charge your account once per month.However you will receive a confirmation request in about 24 hours after the credit/debit card is authorized.You have 24 hours from the time you'll receive the e-mail to complete this eBay Request.
Note:Ignoring this message will cause eBay TKO Suspension notice.


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To make the funds payable to us please use this link:

http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayIS...ame=h:h:sin:US


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eBay will request personal data(password; credit card/bank numbers, and so on) in this email.
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Wow!!!...thanks for the heads up. With the many things I hate in this day an age, near the top of the list ranks THIEVES!!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

 

Yup, I've gotten 2 of those "ebay" notices, another variation, though, they just said that my account would be closed in 24 hrs. if I didn't "verify" all my account information. They wanted my ebay name, password, paypal information, and bank account number to "verify". I turned them both in to ebay, they have a ebay spoof address you can forward suspicious letters to and they will check it out for you, and try to track down the scammer.

 

Uh-Oh
My friend told me his eBay account was down for some reason. He said they sent him an email requesting to pay up. He followed the directions and now his account is suspended.
I just called him and read your post to him over the phone. He cried "Oh Nooo!!"
It near impossible to contact eBay.
Anyone know how?

 

yup i got 3 of those emails (saying i had to verify my credit card information...i was like hmm...why would it need to be updated, then i was like F**k this whne they wanted my paypal email AND password!)

yes go to help on the ebay main page, go through like 4 pages of stupid questions/answer sections and finally at the end there is a "contact ebay" thing, where you can write them an email. (its ridiculously hard to contact ebay, but when i told them about that email i had received, i got a response back in like 12 hours)

 

If someone falls for it, there are things you can do.

1) If you gave your Ebay ID and Password (spoof login) you'll need to IMMEDIATLY change your Ebay Password.

2) If you then gave your personal information such as credit card info, IMMEDIATLY call your credit card company and have them cancel the card.

 

2) If you then gave your personal information such as credit card info, IMMEDIATLY call your credit card company and have them cancel the card.

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Fortunately your friend is only responsible for the first $50 used on the acct. Hopefully it wasn't one of those stupid debit cards that the same as a credit card linked to your checking acct.

I had a friend who discovered $1200 missing from his acct. one day, purchases in San Francisco in one day totaled that much by someone who stole his acct. info. The bank reimbursed the full amount.

 

I got that same one about 6 months ago. I just went to ebay and checked my account info and everything was cool so I let ebay know of the email and never heard anything again.

 

I got it also but didnt reply

 

I had gotten a email like this. I opened a new yahoo email account and less than a week later I get this ebay verifacation letter. Im like what?? this email isnt even listed w/ ebay. first thought is SCAM!!!. Type of **** isnt gona stop happing till some one stops this giving out your email address to every body and their cuz. as sone as you open a email account thousand of spamers have your address. its BS