Another eBay hacker-Dumber than dirt!!!

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TellsItLikeItIs

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Thought I should post this. Just received an email from member@ebay.com
Following is a copy/paste from the text of the message:

"eBay sent this message on behalf of an eBay member via My Messages. Responses sent using email will go to the eBay member directly and will include your email address. Click the Respond Now button below to send your response via My Messages (your email address will not be included)."

His/Her remarks were:

"Look,
There are now 2 months since I paied for the item and I still didn`t receive it.This is my last warning : unless you solve the problem the first thing I shall report you to ebay and second I shall go to the police .
I am loosing my patience..."

Interesting thing is, I have never sold anything on eBay. Bought a few items, but have never had a problem with any sellers.

What the sender is hoping for is that the recipient of the email will click on the "Respond Now" button. Just another way to get your email address/hack into your eBay account/steal your dog/or whatever.

If you receive something like this, just log into your eBay and check your messages. DO NOT click on the "Respond Now" button in an email.

Someone's always trying to get over on someone else, huh?

Edit: In the email they were referring to item # 5801824341 (which does not exist)
 
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Yes ...

And I received saying someone with IPL address xxx.xxx.xxx tried to hack into my Ebay account, and I should log in to verify everything is okay.

Problem is: It went to an email account that is not listed on my Ebay account at all. (or my Paypal account either).
 
I get 4 or 5 of these a week. I usually report them as spoof emails but it doesn't help. Sometimes I get the same ones over and over. You think they could grab the IP address and curtail at least some of this BS:( :mad: :rolleyes:
 
I get them telling me that the first bidder renegged and they will sell me the item for my bid. I also get stuff telling me that I need to verify my Paypal account because there have been attempts from foreign sites trying to get into it and if I don't respond the account will be shut down.

As was said earlier I report it to EBay but I think it is a waste of time and effort.
 
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