posted on April 25, 2005 09:14:19 PM new
Is this what a real invitation looks like? The "click here" link takes me to the sign on page. I'm suspicious, but I forwarded it to [email protected] twice and did not get an acknowledgement like I usually do. Opinions?
Bronze PowerSeller Program
Dear tradersjones,
Congratulations!
Due to your con tin ued s ale s s ucc ess on e Bay , we are delighte d t o inv ite you t o j oin o ur Bronze
PowerSeller Pr ogr a m. As a P owe rSelle r, you will receive add itional sup port to hel p you to continue
to sel l s uccessfully.
Membership to this selected group is FREE. J oin ing i s a simpl e t wo-ste p p r oce ss:
1. Go to Powe rSe l ler Program signin p age by clicking here
2. Sign in, by sig nin on PowerS ell er Pro gra m page you req ues t to join Powe rSe ller Program
Once you accept, we will pro vide you wit h a Pow erS e lle r Ico n n ext to your User ID as
recognition of your har d w ork. In add itio n, yo u w ill a lso have the following benefits of membership:
Priorit y E mail Support for all level s p lus ded ica ted Phone sup por t T eam
Access to dedicate d P owe rSe ller Portal
A PowerSeller Wel come Pack
A Discussion Board for you to net wor k with other P owe rSellers
A dedicated PowerSelle r N e wsl etter
Free Po wer Seller Bu sin ess Templates
Access to the latest developm ent s on lis ting tools, Shops, p rom otions a nd other t rad ing tips
Please note that you must jo in for eBay's PowerSeller Pro gra m by the l ast day of the mon th.
Regards,
Your eBay PowerSeller Team
eBay Internat ion al AG sent this e- mai l to you bec ause of your outstanding feedbac k, high sales, a nd good account st and ing. If
you would no t l ike to be invited t o j o in the PowerSell er p rog ram, click here, click "Check it out", and click "Decline" at the
bottom of the pa ge. Please note t hat i t m ay take up to 14 days t o p rocess your request.
Edited to add that I copied and pasted it it from the email, but it doesn't really look like this in the original. It doesn't have all these spaces and stuff. Now that I re-read it though, I think the capitalization of some of the words is unusual and step 2 says "Signin by signin...." I don't think so.....
[ edited by tradersjones on Apr 25, 2005 09:19 PM ]
posted on April 25, 2005 09:26:03 PM new
When I was asked to join, I received an email that directed me to go to the powerseller powerseller site by logging on to Ebay in the normal way, not through a link. Also, by going to that site, you can see if you are elegible to join. My guess is that the email you received is a phishing attempt. Did you check the headers closely?
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posted on April 25, 2005 09:58:16 PM new
Just look at the URL of the invitation. Based on the grammar, and the urgency (must join by the last day of the month) I am convinced this is fake.
posted on April 25, 2005 11:03:47 PM new
Doesn't sound good to me either at this point.
I'm hardly a compuytor expert, ut this usually works for me in spotting spoofs.If you're using Outlook Express you can check the details and html in the email by right-clicking on the message in question in your "inbox", then clicking on "properties".
In the window that pops up choose the "details" tab, then click on "message source".
In the second window that then pops up, you'll see the nuts and bolts of the email you received: where it came from, the routed points, the sender's email and more. Some of the "fake" info will spoof that it is coming from ebay as in "From: eBay <[email protected]>", but in most spoof emails, there will usually be a non-ebay email address that gives the spoof email away, either in the details at the beginning or, if you look at the html code within the body of the email, at the redirect portion that sends you to the spoofed ebay page.
Just received a spoof today (scarce for me). Subject line read only "ebay notification"...very un-ebay-like. Message source reveals an isp source in Japan "ns.immudyne.co.jp". Can you say spoof?
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[ edited by bcpostcards on Apr 25, 2005 11:04 PM ]
posted on April 26, 2005 01:15:14 AM new
It's a spoof....hope you didn't sign in from it. When I got my powerseller invitation, eBay directed me to the site and where to sign in to accept. I got one of these letters too but sent it to spoof@ebay and they responded that it was not from them.
posted on April 26, 2005 05:03:00 AM new
I got one of those and I have not sold on eBay for over a year! Does that suggest it is a scam? I know it is!
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posted on April 26, 2005 08:49:46 PM new
The link took me to the Ebay sign in page, but I didn't sign in. What's weird is that whenever I forward these spoof emails to Ebay and Paypal I get an immediate response thanking me for sending it and yes indeed it was a spoof, but this one I sent twice and got no response either time.
Well, I didn't want to be a PowerSeller anyway, so there.
posted on April 26, 2005 09:30:40 PM new
Actually is sounds legite. The scammers right now are sending invites to be a silver powerseller.
Also, the legite ebay bronze powerseller e-mail does contain a link to the site. But I still would take the advice of the others here and not click it. Go directly to eBay and go to the site map and take it from there. If you are eligible, it will allow you to sign up.
One other thing you can do is to scroll your mouse pointer over the link, but don't click it. The address of the link will show up at the bottom of the page. If it is legite, it will have the ebay name in it and very little else. If it has more names in it or just an IP address, it is a fake.
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posted on April 27, 2005 11:51:51 AM new
It's a spoof. Scammers are now using java script to make the URL of a fake Ebay sign in page appear to be real.
