posted on May 22, 2003 09:03:46 AM new
Last night I got this email. Was supposed to be from eBay (see below, I copied and pasted) I am a POWER SELLER with almost 2000 Positive feedbacks and 0 Negs.
After I clicked on the link to put in the number they gave me, had to log on and took me to eBay's main page. DUH........real quick, I went on eBay to see the star's and there are no orange stars, so right away, thought I had been hacked and did go and change my password.
Would eBay really offer to give me 30% off my fees for 3 months, I don't think so !
HERE IT IS ~
CONGRATULATIONS ON EARNING YOUR ORANGE STAR!
We at eBay would like to congratulate you on obtaining feedback points and reaching the Fidelity Star level.
In order to thank you for your active support of the eBay marketplace and your dedication in obtaining feedback points, something that's integral to the success of the marketplace, eBay would like to offer a token of our esteem for all of your hard work and dedication.
eBay is sending out this thank you and invitation to receive a 30% discount on all you're ebay expenses for the next 3 months as a gift to everyone who has already attained a Fidelity Star level. Below you have the promotion code needed to activate the gift.
Promotion code: 18240921
To activate the gift just follow the link below and insert the verification when prompted:
Bay sent this e-mail to you because your Notification Preferences indicate that you want to receive information about Special Promotion, Offers and Events. You are subscribed as so & so. To change your communication preferences simply reply to this e-mail with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Please note that it may take up to 14 days to process your request. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
posted on May 22, 2003 09:37:50 AM new
You don't need to change your password unless you clicked the link and entered it. The trick to figuring out if it is real or not is very simple. Open the link and look at the URL of the page your are take to. Don't let the URL in the email fool you - that can be forged very simply. The actual URL of the linked page should start with ebay.com, if it doesn't you are being spoofed, close the page and say bye bye then foward the email to [email protected] so that they can put the wheels in motion to ty to shut it down.
posted on May 22, 2003 10:24:45 AM new
Ok ~ thanks to all.
Just sent it to ebay and ebayspoof.
I just got another one this morning but was a bit different and knew that one was no good either since they wanted me to update my eBay preferences, NOT !
I never even thought about clicking on properties to see headers. Learn something new every day
Now, I will know if it ever happens again.
I saw 30% off fees and got all excited and frgot about common sense ..........if it looks too good to be true, probably is !lol !!
Yes~ did change my passwords, etc right away after I realized it was a spoof
posted on May 22, 2003 11:46:06 AM newI am a POWER SELLER with almost 2000 Positive feedbacks and 0 Negs.
Actually, gina, you are 226 feedback away from 2000 and, not only is the ID that received this mail NOT a PowerSeller, it hasn't sold anything in a month.
IOW, you may want to be more careful. Not only about the links that you click but about the info you post without realizing it
posted on May 22, 2003 12:05:31 PM new
How did you do that zoomin?
When I searched I found another seller, with the feedback Gina mentions.
Me, I am pushing 50 feedback, and I am not too worried if I am found, hopefully someone will bid...or spay or neuter their cat or dog!
Yep, you have to be careful with links these days, because they will autoforward to a junky site. The spammers may not be able to spell, but peops get real excited when you sing the siren song to their wallet, and spelling/grammar fly out the window.
Japerton
...as did mine!
[ edited by japerton on May 22, 2003 12:07 PM ]
Uh ~ I actually have 2128 positive feedbacks with 1921 from unique users since I have had repeat customers!
I was not trying to brag about bring a POWER SELLER either. I read somewhere that these nasty people are going after accounts like that and wanted others to know.
I am not gina50 on eBay or the person named in that email that I received from the hacker! My name is different on eBay versus here.
[ edited by gina50 on May 22, 2003 12:17 PM ]
posted on May 22, 2003 12:50:15 PM newgina50, there is a valid email address corresponding to an eBay account in the email you posted ... I know it isn't yours, but as a courtesy to that seller it would probably be nice to click on the edit button (right on top of your post) and remove it. Otherwise, that seller could quickly find his/her email box flooded with spam from the obnoxious 'bots crawling the web.
posted on May 22, 2003 01:35:04 PM new
gina ~
sorry for any misunderstanding. I was trying to point out that the e-mail was sent to what I thouht was your buying ID rather than your selling ID.
If the ID is NOT you, perhaps it is a clue to whoever zapped you with the magical e-mail. Hopefully eBay will follow up on it!
Japerton ~
you checked the e-mail addy she has registered with vendio ~ hopefully by the time you see this, the info/e-mail addy in her first post will be edited out.
I'm not sure where all of the bogus e-mails are coming from lately.
I received two on one of my secondary selling ID's just this week.
It was probably the first time EVER this particular ID had over 50 items listed and BAMM! Two bogus eBay e-mails!
About two years ago, I went and un-linked my buying ID's as well as taking out any personal info from my ME page ~ too many wackos out there! I also changed my Vendio account (AW at the time) since 'someone' tried to prove a point by interfering with my auctions.
I no longer answer 'ask Seller a Question' e-mails if they seem too stupid ~ so many of those questions are bogus, only sent in attempt to harvest e-mail addys, just waiting for you to respond or click on a poison link! It sure would be nice if eBay would alter their system to be more like YAHOO in this area ~ no one needs my e-mail addy unless we are transacting!
posted on May 25, 2003 07:32:06 PM new
Downloaded the same e-mail today and forwarded it to [email protected] without clicking on link since no way would e-bay offer 30% off. Also the usage of "you're" made me suspect something was amiss. Did answer a question awhile back from a supposed member in Malaysia about a US only item in response to " Ask seller a question" Seemed odd that someone in that country would even want to bid on that type of collectable which only brought one $9.95 bid. In addition,for the past few weeks since I have been getting about a dozen or more spam e-mails offering to enlarge my penis- for the most part with different headers. Has anyone else had this problem?
buyhigh
posted on May 25, 2003 07:59:57 PM new
The sorry part is,,,,,I don't have a penis to get ENLARGED,,,,,,I'd Sure Love to get an ENLARGED penis however,,,,,how can they do that? In three years here they have gone from a 1/2 inch in a month to over 3inches in a week,,,,,The Wonders of Modern Medical Internet Science. Amazing! Speaking as a Woman, I have seen it go from Dud,,,,,,,to Wow!!!!! with NO medical aids required! I must be a Miracle worker! WooooooW!!!!! Can I,,,,,somehow give testimonials to their cures? The Insecure suckers that fall for that are amazing........I am sure there are Millions! That's why they keep sending that nonsense. It cost MONEY and it MUST work! LOL! buyhigh,,,,with different HEADERS!!!! LOL!!!!!
posted on May 26, 2003 07:21:18 AM new
Ther is no orange star,fidelity star,no free Cadillac or Mercedes,no free trips to Hawaii.
If you "receive" an email from "Ebay" asking for your password you are guaranteed that it isn't from Ebay.
posted on May 26, 2003 03:54:31 PM new
Hi buyhigh,
You can set up a mail rule in Outlook express that take all emails that have penis, or whatever other words you choose, in the subject line and send them to the deleted items folder. Or better yet not even download them from the server.
Cheers,
Adrian
posted on May 26, 2003 04:08:49 PM new
That is just it. The senders of these e-mails have gotten very clever and no longer do they put the word penis on the subject line which I already have instructed in-box assistant to delete from server. The subject is always something vague. I just delete the e-mail but it is annoying to have to do so and I am curious to know how I got on this spam list. My e-bay ID does not have my full e-mail addess so that is not it.
buyhigh
