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Fake Ebay and paypal messages?

Regs

Regs

Lifer
For the past month I've been getting these eBay e mails. I know their fake because:

a; the link offered in the email with eBay's logo is a cgi redirect with only a sub domain of eBay's link. Plus, a non-secure server for log in.

b; one email from "eBay" was blocked by anti virus.

c; I've been inactive with eBay for over 3 years....

I got to admit though they got to be very convincing sometimes. I was almost scared after I started getting threatening emails from "eBay" members that their deals weren't being honored. Mixed in with "your account maybe compromised" emails.

This all must be some scam to log in using the perpetrators server to steel an eBay account.

Just to make sure, I checked with my bank and no suspicious activity has been reported with my account.
 
Yes, it's called phishing... it's been very prominent for the last year or two.

Never click their links... always type it out if it appears to be a valid .com address ... but to be most safe, don't click anything in emails you didn't expect. The biggest fear isn't that you'll click it (we're mostly techies here)... it's that your unsuspecting relatives will and lose a ton of money. Send them a short note.
 
I send the fake ebay ones to spoof@ebay.com and the fake paypal ones to spoof@paypal.com and every time they have said yes they were fake. One was obvious tho because it had a "link" in it but you couldn't click on it because the whole email was a jpeg, and a grainy one at that 😛
 
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