Yo yo yo, my homies!
Be on the lookout for yet another eBay-specific phishing/spoof scam. Scummy scammers are now linking directly to eBay’s website in their emails, so if you click it, your eyes and your eBay Toolbar will tell you you’re on the real site. Because you are. But as soon as you log in, you will be sent somewhere very, very bad.
So if I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – never, never, never use a link FROM AN EMAIL to log in (or enter private info) ANYWHERE. NEVER.
Check out these articles for more details. (no login necessary!)
Phishers Hack eBay
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122065,00.asp
New Techniques Used in eBay Phishing Scam:
http://www.smoothwall.net/information/news/newsitem.php?id=818
eBay Security Center:
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/stop_spoof_websites.html
eBay’s ecommerce Safety Guide: (identity theft info included, .pdf format)
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/e-CommerceSafetyGuide.pdf
PayPal’s NEW Identity Theft Protection Resource Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/IdentityProtection-outside
and a member has posted an interesting list of current scams:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=410477782&tstart=0&mod=1108614676817
PLEASE NOTE: information in this blog is a personal commentary and is not sponsored or endorsed by eBay, inc. in any way.
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