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eBay Scammers Up The Ante On You
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By Stephanie McIntyre
I am surprised that there are so many new scams on eBay
these days. It seems that everyday I get at least one or two
new invitations to fork over my userid, password or credit
card info.
It is as if the scammers think that I actually am that
stupid. Well, as my husband is fond of saying, “I may have
been born yesterday… but I was up all night”. There is
very little that you can get past me now as far as an eBay
scam goes. But recently I was caught in a very subtle scam
that was very clever.
It was designed to, of course get information from me that I
did not want anyone to get. I was sent a message that
appeared to come from someone with whom I was involved in a
transaction.
The message had the distinctive look of an eBay email
message with the yellow “RESPOND HERE” button off to the
right. The message was very cryptic, which I later realized
was designed to be evocative and get me to click on the
response button. The message merely said “I’ve sent the
payment through Paypal when are you going to ship my item?”
it included a link with the item number.
to the eBay item that I was selling, which the buyer had
paid for and was waiting to be shipped.
Instead I was taken to an eBay sign-in screen, which seemed
a little different but I went ahead and signed in using my
eBay sign-in id and password.
I went on from there to research the item the buyer was
looking for.
The next morning I awoke and went to check my auction and
saw that in addition to the items I was legitimately selling
on eBay, was an auction for a Porsche. It looked as if this
Porsche was an auction that I was running. I immediately
contacted eBay and they were able to determine that the
auction was fraudulent. They promptly cancelled the
auction.
I was told, by the eBay Customer Service rep, that there
would be less likelihood that this kind of hijacking of my
acco!
unt, cou
ld occur if I were to use the eBay Toolbar.
The eBay toolbar is a piece of software that you download
and attach to your browser which has security included with
it that makes it more difficult for someone send a message
through that looks like it
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