Another Spoof, Internet Fraud Tactic?

Have you ever heard of this scenario? This looks like a more involved and detailed spoof to me, how about you?

1. Person buys from Ebay, pays with Pay Pal on credit card.
2. Ebay and Pay Pal confirmation emails are done.
3. Email comes from Pay Pal (appears to be) requesting person confirm email address.
4. That person responds on link in the email then when it asks to provide password, the password doesn't work so the person thinks they forgot password. That link gives another link to request password be emailed to them.
5. New email comes in with new link to change password. That link asks for confirmation of credit card number to verify identity.

Has anyone had this scenario happen to them and was it ever confirmed as being a fraudulent attempt to steal your account information?

Mind you, this has not happened to me since I try to stay aware and not ever fall into that trap. I just know someone who did this.

Any ideas or input?

Molly
:^)))

I'd be suspicious.

send anything weird to ebay at spoof@ebay.com

I'd be very suspicious. PayPal would not need to confirm the e-mail address if they just sent a receipt and it did not bounce back to them. Second, PayPal advises people to go directly to their site by typing in www.paypal.com when information is needed; they do not send customers such requests with a direct link. They tell you to go to their site, login, and look at your account area. Chances are, the e-mails were done in HTML and the links which appeared to go to PayPal URL's actually went to other websites. Phishers are getting increasingly sophisticated with their scams as people become more leery of the scams coming into their inboxes.

i got one and emailed it to them and they said it was someone trying to steal my info!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Thank you very much ladies.

Molly
:^))))

They sent another one today!!! BEWARE everyone

notmartha,
They are sending them to me also.I just forward them to spoof or delete them.Neither would ask personal information through e-mails.Jody

Actually - on ebay there is something about this very thing and how to determine if it's truly from them or not

http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/spoof-email.html found it yesterday while waiting for an auction to end.

everyone take percautions.

M.

This message was edited Dec 13, 2004 1:51 PM

I've been getting one too. I do not respond to them. I figure if I have an account problem it will show up on my ebay homepage or the person who got the payment will email.

Tina

People are sending them everywhere; it's an easy, low-cost way to get credit card information. Just as a rule, forward them to spoof@paypal.com and spoof@ebay.com and delete the original. Never give credit card information unless you've personally opened your browser and manually typed in the website's main address and opened your account information.

Mbock, if you remove the elipses before and after that link, it will be clickable; links have to be stand-alone to work in the forums.

BTDT !

Any request for '' ANY'' information including confirmation for addie and to re-set your password should be sent immediately to The Spoof addies in Kims post. AND Never answer these scam-artists in ANY way.

GW - thanks for the link help...wondered why that was happening.....


(i like dots........)

m.

Don't feel too bad, y'all -- a friend of ours is a network administrator over a hospital's network and HE was duped. He realized after putting in his e-mail and password that he'd been duped, and then scrambled to go change his password at all the sites he uses.

GW,

If he gave a credit card number, he needs to address that issue to.

Anyway, the person I was referring to at the beginning of this post, did all the things outlined. So I guess the person needs to scramble now and put the Amex on notice and fix the passwords. BTW, it's no one here at the Garden.

Thanks for all the input. It has been very helpful and that ebay link is very informative.

Molly

He stopped short of doing that, just "logging in" to the site and realizing something smelled fishy.

I hit reply and told them that ebay is on to them!!! LOL
no more emails today!

Not so good, Dori...Now you've told the spammer he's reached a live human being. Never respond to spam -- you just end up getting on even more spammers' lists.

You can't do anything now a days with out your info and money being stolen!!!!! >:(

Ironically, Internet fraud is but a small portion of identity and credit card theft. Manual copying down of credit card info by order takers at direct-mail companies is a biggie, too. You just do your best, and hope for the best!

Hi,
Just another ploy to comment on. Phishers are using dummy bank sites now to get account numbers. I've gotten numerous emails regarding updates to on-line banking that require my immediate response. Now, when you don't recognize the name of the bank, its probably a big tipoff that its a scam. But many major banks, like Citibank, Chase, Bank of America to name a few are targets as well.
Its the same deal as the Ebay/Paypal scams. As with Ebay/Paypal, if there is a question about your MONEY, type in that URL yourself and email customer service.
So many crooks, so little money...
Don't anyone get taken this Christmas!

Sheila

I even got one which purportedly came from American Greetings. It said to check out their Christmas section...But the links all pointed to a URL at americangreetings.us. I didn't go to the website; instead, I e-mailed AG and got a reply saying it wasn't from them.

My latest was from a guy who wanted to give me millions for my "good works for God" Seems he ripped off a trust account that he was supposed to use to spread the gospel and now feels bad about it and wants to make it right by sending it to people on the net that have religious sites (I don't but I do manage my Dad's site)

LOL seems to me that if he really wanted to use the money correctly he would donate it to the church of his beliefs and turn himself in for fraud.

"So many crooks, so little money... "how true!

The old Nigerian scam, always a different sheep's clothing...LOL

Just got a Nigerian feller wanting to give me some money too. What a pile! right in the trash.

I got one from the Nigerian too...Trashed it ...LOL Jo

Ya, me too, and I've never been spammed before, my DH is the primary, he usually get them, not me, so when I got the Nigerian one, I trew back at him as spam, Annie

The Nigerian thing's been going on for decades, first in regular mail, then faxes, now e-mail. Funny how those perennial scams and urban legends just change venue...But people still fall for them!

What does reporting an email as spam actually do? I've tried it but keep getting the same ones over and over again.

I guess someone has to be the first to alert eBay or another business of the latest version of a phishing scam out there. Thing is, so many are doing them and some of the people sending them are clever about covering their trails.

There is a gov site somewhere to report spam, FCC I think.

It's spam@uce.gov

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/