I just had my Ebay ID and feedback STOLEN by someone (as well as my
credit card number!!!) purporting to be from Ebay; I got a message that
was "from" [log in to unmask], which is an email address I'd seen before
from Ebay, that said my account was being suspended for bidding and
selling privileges because Ebay couldn't verify my credit card info. It
provided me with a link I could click to go to "Ebay's site" to rectify
this. Naively, I clicked on the link and did so, thus providing some
scam artist with all my personal info, phone number, etc., credit card
and Ebay password, and they proceeded to change my user ID, password and
screw me. I have reported to Ebay and my credit card co., and will be
reporting to some sort of authority (Ebay is notoriuos for not caring
about fraud), but please beware.
Also, if you are a seller or buyer and see the user ID "ignor_va_fute",
THAT is the jerk that stole my hard-earned feedback, so beware of them!
If you ever get an email from Ebay asking you to click a link to update
your credit card info especially, immediately forward it to Ebay and
DON'T DO IT! The crooks basically set up a mirror site of Ebay and screw
you out of your feedback, privacy, any auctions you are involved in, and
more. They mask their own ID, email addy and IP address so most folks
don't know. My software engineer hubby too late told me about the risks
of this...
I know a lot of people on the FML use Ebay, so I thought I'd pass this
along. Good luck.
Dooks,
April AC (who now has to go on vacation sans credit card...) See you in
two weeks!
PS This is the email I ACTUALLY got from Ebay that tipped me off to
the problem-I knew I hadn't changed my email address or password when I
"updated" my info:
"Dear a2jr,
Thank you for submitting your change of e-mail address request.
Instructions on completing the change have been sent to your new email
address. Once the process is completed, your eBay-related email will
no longer be routed to this email address.
Change of E-mail address request was made from:
IP Address: 80.96.131.183
ISP Host: serdra7.catv.onix.ro
If you or anyone with authorized access to your account did not make this
change, please go to http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_inline/index.html
and submit an email to Customer Support.
Thank you for using eBay!
http://www.ebay.com"
[Posted in FML issue 4223]
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