OT-Requests from Ebay for update

Greetings- I have been receiving emails from Ebay? telling me I must update my account info. for "security reasons". They want SS number, mother's maiden name, credit card no. etc. Have others received this email and is it legit.? Thanks, Jim.

Reply to
Jim L.
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NO, NO, NO -- it's a hoax, called a "phishing" email. Don't do it, you will be giving away your private info to identity thieves.

Reply to
Bob

Nope! It's a con.

Reply to
Tom Miller

Yes, it's phishing scam. I believe the correct procedure is to forward the email, with full header info, to snipped-for-privacy@ebay.com, or some such address, to have them look at it. The correct address will appear somewhere on the ebay website.

Reply to
Gary Brady

Everyone has gotten that message, it's a total scam perpetrated to steal your personal information. Be thankful if you didn't respond to it.

Harry C.

Reply to
hhc314

You have to ask? Ebay, Microsoft, any bank/financial instution and probably a few I missed will NEVER ask for this type of information in an Email!!! For more info and a needed education go to -

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Regards. Ken.

Reply to
Ken Davey

The Phishermen use various "fronts" for their phony requests. DO NOT SEND your confidential information to ANYONE who contacts you. They can make fake websites which look very real.

Reply to
Leo Lichtman

most likely Russian scammers. Never take this sort of action in response to emails.

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Reply to
Ignoramus22998

your confidential information to ANYONE who

Just got two of these this evening purporting to be from Paypal. Both were totally bogus. Instant tipoff is the non-Paypal url. Also, Paypal uses cookies to fill in the email address field. This never happens with the spoofs. I like to screw with them. I have a file with 300+ numbers on one line. I paste this into every field that will take it and then submit. The really lame ones respond with a thank you. Some are really good. They check your id and password when you enter them. Can't screw with those. I actually caused one script to bomb with the garbage input. Of course these get reported to Paypal also...Paul

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PJ

...Paul They are getting smarter - the url actually reads the same as the legit site, right down to the 'https' (s for secure). Botton line - do not go there - ever!

Ken.

Reply to
Ken Davey

"PJ" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

I screw with them too. I recently screwed with a couple I recieved and I was bombarded with e-mails with virus attachments. Of course those never even made it to my machine. They were all from the same account, with different names shown in the "From" field. I like sending the messages in the user name and password fields. None of which are fit for reprinting here.

Reply to
D Murphy

Yep -- I have -- several times -- and I don't even *have* an eBay account. :-)

Absolutely not. The last one I checked was sent by a dialup account in Maine, and was sending you to a URL (by raw IP address, not by system name) in Korea. Tell me that eBay would be using a web site in Korea for this kind of purpose? :-)

It is what is called "phishing" -- trying to get enough information about you to make identity theft easy.

Tell them *nothing* -- but forward the messages to eBay's abuse address, whatever it is this week. " snipped-for-privacy@ebay.com" or something like that.

Good Luck, DoN.

Reply to
DoN. Nichols

Hell no, it's a phishing expedition. If you want to give them a rude shock, make up a fake reply with the names & numbers of the FBI, CIA or any other numbers you can dig up. They may get more than they phished for. LOL bugs

Reply to
Bugs

Yes. No.

-jc-

Reply to
John Chase

Ummmm. Lemmesee ........... you already have an account with ebay. Now, someone sends you an e mail wanting the same information .............

hellloooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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SteveB

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