stormypetr
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posted on January 10, 2003 04:19:39 PM new
Apparently my Ebay account has been "temporally" suspended.
I got this email:
Dear Ebay user,
Your ebay account has been temporally closed for the following reasons:
* Violation Of Our Site Policy.
If you or anyone with authorized access to your account did not
make this change please click on the url given below:
I removed the url.
Think ebay meant temporarily? Is there some place I can send this bogus email for Ebay to investigate? Or do they even bother anymore?
[ edited by stormypetr on Jan 10, 2003 08:10 PM ]
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Libra63
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posted on January 10, 2003 05:55:34 PM new
Can you get into your eBay account?
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tooltimes
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posted on January 10, 2003 06:01:55 PM new
I think you missed the point Libra. The scammers send out these bogus emails to known ebay sellers with a website where the ebay suspension can supposedly be fixed that caused the bogus suspension. The fix has to involve their password which the scammers will get. This is a very common MO for the scammers.
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sparkz
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:09:48 PM new
Can you post that link here?
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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stormypetr
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:10:17 PM new
There is nothing wrong with my account. As tooltimes noted, it is a scam. I don't think Ebay would "temporally" suspend anyones account. If they are suspending my account, I expect them to know how to spell "temporarily". Anyway, is there a place to report this? They used to have an email address to send this stuff to so they could shut the scammers down.
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stormypetr
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:14:19 PM new
As an addendum, the email came from [email protected]. Kind of legit sounding.
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kiara
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:15:23 PM new
You can try reporting it here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-RS.html
Member problems.
Spam and miscellaneous offenses.
I don't think an e-mail I received is actually from ebay.
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stormypetr
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:18:06 PM new
I looked there but did not see anything appropriate. It is for telling on someone that sells or buys on Ebay. Not for someone trying a scam from outside of Ebay.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 10, 2003 08:45:01 PM new
They can spoof the email address to say anything they want.
The scam would go something like this. Gather as many ebay email address as you can ( easy to do as many sellers still have their email address as their ID ). A few hundred emails wold be best. Next create the phony website and set it up to mimic an ebay information page. Next, create an ebay email that looks a lot like a real ebay email ( get the spelling right ). Now send out all of the emails at the same time from a free email account with a spoofed ebay address ( very easy to do ) and gather as many of the passwords as possible before they shut down the website ( which will be right away ).
Very little risk if executed properly and the rewards are whatever they can do with the passwords and IDs.
It's almost not worth turning in to ebay if the bogus site has been shut down. You input will only help in letting ebay learn a bit of the size of this particular scam.
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moatokni
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posted on January 10, 2003 10:10:20 PM new
I got the same email a few days ago and you can report it here. http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-RS.html
There will be a place to select something in the line of I don't think the email I rec. is from ebay.
[ edited by moatokni on Jan 10, 2003 10:11 PM ]
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pmelcher
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posted on January 11, 2003 01:40:46 PM new
I have been getting at least one email a day notifying me that Ebay will suspend my ability to buy unless I verify my information. I have been deleting them as fast as they come in. I would think Ebay would want to let me know if they don't want me to sell! I think it is just junk mail
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antique519
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posted on January 11, 2003 04:38:09 PM new
You need to send the headers and copy of the body of the email to [[email protected]]. I just reported two different ones. One even wanted the pin number I use to access my bank account. Talk about giving personal information!!
To get the header, right click on the email address, go down to properties, click on details and copy all the gibberish listed there.
We need to get these guys stopped!!!
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cdheer
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posted on January 11, 2003 08:17:07 PM new
Maybe it's not a misspelling. Maybe they really mean temporally.
No more selling items in the past or future time zones, you rascal.
--chris
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sparkz
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posted on January 11, 2003 09:18:02 PM new
Click on the link in the email. When it asks for username, type in "Pierre". When is asks for your password, type in "yourdead". Click the submit button and see what kind of reply you get 
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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