From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sat May 21 2005 - 06:01:58 PDT
I have had in last few weeks attempts to get information about my Ebay
account by these various scams,. I have the Ebay address they(Ebay) as that
be used to send information about scammers to them - what a waste of time -
My .02 Ebay does not really care if their site is used to rip you (or me)
off. As long as Ebay gets their cut that is what is important to them.
as this poster said - look out for yourself
>
> REPLY:
>
> 1. Check the email address that may be in the body of
> the ad verses the email address in the header created
> by ebay, it should be the same, if not, red flag.
>
> 2. Seller is in Europe, item in US...big red flag.
>
> 3. Sounds too good to be true, usually is.
>
> 4. Seller wants a wire transfer, big, big red flag!
>
> 5. Photo of item looks flat, means its a pic of a
> pic.
>
> 6. "Pre-approved bidders only" and it's in a more
> costly highlighted ad, scammers love to establish an
> email contact with you. They don't care about ad cost
> either, afterall they hijacked the account.
>
> 7. Here's how they hijack accounts....Watch out for
> any eBay letter wishing to verify your account or
> password. Usually the letter links to a phoney eBay
> site and requests you input your ebay information for
> confirmation. Easy to detect as it never has eBay.com
> in the address, just something similar. You wouldn't
> think a person would fall for this, but thousands of
> people do every day from eBay to Banc Credit Cards
> pirates.
>
> Last tip, most frauds I found were in classic cars or
> big ticket items. They always had one of the above
> going for them.
>
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