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A new and clever ebay / paypal scam - be careful!!

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Hi All,
I had an attempted scam on my ebay account recently and I thought I'd warn you all. It seemed like a clever new twist.

I've been selling a number of drum parts on ebay recently so when I got a question from a potential buyer I didn’t think anything was amiss. The email looked EXACTLY like a regular ebay potential buyer inquiry. When I tried to click the item link in the email to make sure I knew to which item he was referring, it took me to an ebay sign-in page. It is normal for me to have to re-sign in sometimes when I go to ebay so I did sign in using my username and password. The page kept bouncing back when I hit 'enter'. I thought that was strange so I looked a little closer at the return email address and saw that it was actually from ebay UK and an even closer look showed it to be from a gmail account! I then realized that I just gave my private username and password info!! And I'd like to think I'm pretty scam savvy.

Luckily, I went to my account section on ebay and changed my password right away and alerted ebay about the fraud so I didn't suffer any real consequences but I wonder how many people never realize their error in this type scam until it's too late.

Best Regards,


Barry



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Topic - A new and clever ebay / paypal scam - be careful!! - Barry Kohan 15:38:09 02/03/06 (16)


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