criminals and e-bay

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FergusM

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I received an e-mail this morning (funnily enough, it did not have my name, but a similar name, on it). It appeared to be a pukka e-bay message, and said my account was being suspended and would be terminated if I did not update my account details. I followed a link embedded in the e-mail, and was asked for my details, including all details of my credit card. I clicked on e-bay's live help link to ask what all this was about, and was told it was a spoof. E-bay never asks for details like that at all, and contacts people by private message, not e-mail. They asked me to forward the e-mail to them, and they got back to me to say it was definitely a criminal attempt to get hold of my credit card details. They reported it to the appropriate authorities.

So never click on an e-mail link that purports to be to e-bay.
 
I've had one this morning too and another last week. Not reported the one this morning but very careful who i give my bank / Credit card details to.
 
Me too! At first glance it looks pukka, proper logo etc. I`ve had 2 of them now. "Block Sender" button doesn`t seem to work. I`ve considered replying with duff information to waste their time but due to lack of knowledge about internet I`m a bit worried whether I might create a new problem for myself doing this. Any ideas?
 
These things are very common along with spoof emails purporting to come from PayPal and various banks. They are all phony!!!!!!!!!!!

It's called phishing. Never click on an embedded link in an email of this sort. No bank or other organisation will ever ask you for this kind of information via email.

If the organisation is known to you and they have a contact for informing them of such email forward it to them. Otherwise just delete it. Adding them to your anti spam list doesn't do much to help as they rarely originate from the same source twice.
 
I received something similar from "verfied by visa". The real internet address was "mygirlhatesme.com" which was a bit of a giveaway, so I did what I usually do in these circumstances, which is to point my automated test tool at their site, and leave it for 24 hours uploading duff data into their database.

At least this way, their data quality is substantially reduced, and some of their time wasted...

dv.
 
NO NO NO

do not reply. The reason you have got the email is due probably to an e-mail generator, this creates millions of mails, normally to standard email addresses such as xxx@btconnect.com they will add these millions of combinations to the xxx part. Like the monkeys and Shakespear, eventually some will be correct and be delivered to respective in boxes.

By replying you confirm your email is valid and then, well it is spam city!

I get lots like this on my yahoo email, but non on my domain address, so it must be as said from popular email address extensions like freeserve, bt, hotmail etc.

Hope this helps.....
 
why not simply get a tool that supports spf like this one
http://www.qurb.com/help/spf.php
then you can see instantly if the email is from the people it purports to be from, then you wouldn't have to post these sorts of messages. I get several spoof emails a day supposedly from paypal, ebay etc, and they get routed straight to the junk folder
 
must be big as ive had three in last 3 weeks i delate as soon as i get any mail asking for my details on any cards most stuff like this is taken out so i dont even see it .as i have a block to stop rubbish mail
 
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