Saturday, November 8, 2008

eBay paid item scam

I got an e-mail a few minutes ago from some scammer pretending to be eBay, claimed that some user 1bencogroup1 had already paid for an item. I have not sold anything on eBay in well over a year or two, so I don't know how in the hell anyone could have already paid for an item. These guys are scammers trying to get you to click on the link in their e-mail so they can steal your information. DO NOT CLICK LINKS in e-mails. Go open a new browser window and type in the eBay url (http://www.ebay.com) and sign in there - nowhere else, not even via link here, open a NEW browser window and enter URL manually and log in there. If you really do have any disputes you WILL see it as soon as you log in. If you don't see any notice about a dispute you can be sure the e-mail is a scam artist trying to see if they can catch you and steal your log in information.

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