I’m not in a great mood so I’m just going to say this; anybody falls for this they deserve what happens to them.
I don’t have an eBay account, and would never respond to an e-mail of this sort but can you tell me all the things that would make this invalid even if I had an account, and people generally responded to e-mails of this sort?
eBay request: Confirm your eBay account.
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first off they never address you as Dear “eBay” customer. They have your email tied to your user name. The .dll file in the string is a dead give away as well…
The fact that they are wanting your personal details. eBay would already have these, so would be very unlikely to want them again. I can think of no circumstances where any website would want you to give them your password again except when you’re logging in. In general – if any website asks you by e-mail to resupply your details – BE WARY!
No…surely you aren’t trying to say that that email from those helpful folks at the – ahem – eBay Billing “Departement” (sic) is a scam?
Tsk tsk. Whatever is the world coming to? Phishers should at least learn to spell in the language in which they are attempting to phish, don’t you agree?
I get these in my work e-mail occasionally, which is pretty funny, since I would NEVER use my work address for Ebay!
I particularly liked the one I got which was dated “June 31”. Aside from the date it looked perfect, but….
I don’t know if it helps,but it certainly does hurt to report it. Forward any such messages to spoof@ebay.com
Undoubtedly sent by a “Values voter” as well.
I always delete things like that. Mail them to Ebay so they can investigate.
spammers and scammers are the puke magots of slime. they continue because people actually open their email and respond.
dont open ‘any spam’ click the delete button. when you open spam it alerts them that you have, so you get more.
you wont get bigger body parts, there’s no free lunches, you didnt win any secret lottery.
no matter how innocent it may look or how important it may look – delete delete delete
delete is your punch back to help eliminate spam.
if your ever so lucky to meet a spammer in the street smash their fingers and any other body part that pleases ya… if you meet someone that opens spam slap some common sense into them.
dont open just delete!
I get these quite often. Once I decided to click the link and fill out dummy information for a dummy user. It was amazing all the data they asked for, bank numbers, names of parents and grandparents, etc (for the credit card theft, of course). They asked more questions than I had to answer signing up for my real ebay account.
This happens over here with bogus e-mails (not) from a bank. Yeah I think anyone who clicks on a link like this in an e-mail is very naïve.
I’d definitely report it to eBay (spoof@ebay.com) for no other reason than the phisher is a moron who can’t spell. I love reporting these guys – especially the ones who phish for bank account info and are too stupid to mask their real identity.
heh heh…thanks folks for the spoof@ebay address – I just sent mine along bad spelling & all. The notable thing about the one I got was that it somehow made it through a spam filter that screens mail based on email addresses in my personal address book.
Pia thanks for bringing this up – I wouldn’t have bothered finding that address myself!