JCaswell said:
I get those all the time too. Just delete.
Regarding ebay scams, here's one to watch out for!!
I was selling a PW sword a couple years ago and the price was around $3,000. At the last minute, a guy with no feedback sniped it (the second-highest bidder was a previous customer). I figured I'd give Mr. Zero the benefit of the doubt and wait a few days after sending the invoice. Heard nothing."
Instead, I get this email from my previous customer (who was the second-highest bidder) saying "That's great! I'll take it!" --I had not yet sent him a second-chance offer, though I had planned to do so.
Turns out the scammer sniped the big-dollar item, set up a hotmail account that used my name, contacted the second-highest bidder pretending to be me to get him to send HIM the money. This would leave the second-place bidder out more than $3000 with no sword and me with a very dissatisfied customer.
Luckily, the second-place bidder, again, was a previous customer that contacted me through the email address he already had for me, so we straightened it out and finished the deal without the scammer.
I reported this to the FBI's new internet crime division since I had the original email along with the routing info, etc. You would think they'd be able to track the scammer down if they wanted.
All I know is a couple weeks later, I'm getting this email through eBay from somone claiming to be a kid from Canada who's account (he says) was hacked. He claimed to have no control of what may have been done. ---Funny, a zero-feedback account getting hacked? Why bother? Plus, how would he know something had been tried?
Don't know what might have happened but I think somone might have been pushing some buttons on this guy or he wouldn't be sending out the "it wasn't me" emails.
That's amazing.
Another one is when you get (what looks like) an ebay email which is a Question from Ebay Member.
It says something like "I received the laptop" or "Question about the Item you have for sale" or something like that.
The important thing is that it
looks like a Question from Ebay Member. But of course
it isn't.
The deviously tricky thing about it is that IF you click the yellow "Respond Now" button, to tell this person that you never sold a laptop, or whatever,
you're prompted, of course, to enter your ebay username and password. (As normal when you get a Respond to Question from Ebay Member message.)
And
then the scammer's got them.
In my view, this is a particularly nasty and clever scam.
SO, now when I receive a "Question from an Ebay Member" which looks like it's from ebay, I do one of two things -
1) I ignore it, open a new browser window, and log onto ebay.
Then I look at My Messages and see if the message is there.
Then I decide whether to reply or not.
or
2) I just hit "Reply" - the sender's email address appears in the "To" line in my email. I can send a simple reply if I want to right then, without logging into ebay, but of course then the Sender will have my email address.
But, I
do not click the "Respond Now" button or any link in the email.
