New Ebay scam

[Triton]

Just read this on another forum, thought it would not hurt to give everyone a heads up...

"Today while browsing the antiques section for nihonto, I clicked on a link which took me to the login screen. After I typed in my password and hit enter, I then noticed the URL was a redirected site, not the actual eBay website. I quickly hit stop, but fearing it was too late I changed my password just in case.

Very dangerous, people are now not just sending realistic looking emails, but the auctions themselves are now traps. I couldn't find the auction again so maybe it was removed already, but just be wary."

 

[frhmotorsports]

The other way to "catch" a scammer is by looking at the auctions catergory listing. If a bobcat is in the health and beauty, it is SCAM. We always need to be very careful and any helpful hints benifit us all.

 

[rifon2]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Triton]

Yeah, I've wondered about this bit too:

Most auctions now have a "paypal" button so that you can pay for the item quickly and easily via your paypal account. How hard would it be to build a fake button to redirect you to some other login screen that looks like paypal's login. You login and you just gave up your password. I think I'm going to get the paypals account from them directly now on and not go through the ebay paypal button.