posted on January 29, 2006 03:21:02 PM new
Maybe this isnt new, but I think I've gotten every fake email anyone has ever sent out trying to get user Ids and passwords, today I got one I'd never seen.
Has anyone else gotten this? When you click on the item number it gives you a real looking Ebay log in page. If I hadnt already been logged in I might have fallen for it, luckily I asked myself why "I would have to log into Ebay again"
Here's what it looks like (except I took my email address out, which they had right by the way). Hope to spare others a big mistake.
Dear eBay Member,
The bid that has been entered in error for the item ( 5078811819 ) has been cancelled.
Regards,
eBay
This eBay notice was sent to pcarlson@xxxxxxx from eBay based on your account preferences. Your account is registered on www.ebay.com . As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. To unsubscribe from this notice, change your notification preferences. Please note that it may take up to 10 days to process your request. If you would like to receive this email in text format, change your notification preferences.
posted on January 29, 2006 03:51:03 PM new
Go to www.trendmicro.com. Look for their service called "Housecall" or for their free antivirus scan. Run the program and ascertain that your hard drive is free from viruses and most importantly, trojan horses. When you clicked on that auction number link, not only did you get a fake signin page, you most likely received a keylogging trojan. Don't depend on your resident AV program to detect it unless it's been updated in the last hour or so. Run that scan now and it it detects anything, change the password on every site you have logged onto since clicking that link.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
posted on January 29, 2006 04:54:15 PM new
I've got four spoof emails just yesterday. And I got one with the #5061458114 which wasn't a valid eBay auction #. I didn't even bother to check, I simply forwarded the emails to [email protected] and got their message back saying they were all spoofs. I'm really getting tired of these bothersome emails on a daily basis.
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posted on January 29, 2006 05:45:53 PM new
cta....I usually do ignore/delete them, but since I had a couple of auctions ending I knew it was possible to get a retracted bid. And since I'd never seen that particular spoof before I didnt suspect anything.
Sparkz thanks for the info/reminder. For some reason Trendmicro won't run on my computer, I use to use it, but the last few times I've tried it wont load. So I ran a spyware and virus scan my ISP refers to and found a couple of things and deleted them. Then changed my password, it's been a long time since I've changed it, so it was due anyway.
