EBAY Question

RaT · Post by **RaT** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:31 am

i've been getting some weird e-mails supposedly from a different buyer on Ebay. The weird thing is I don't have anything up for sale there. I got at least 2 similar e-mails in the past week or two. If you also notice these were for deals more than a year ago. check out the e-mail below:

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From : andrej constantinos <sdiztrxw-ipiz@yahoo.de>
Reply-To : andrej constantinos <sdiztrxw-ipiz@yahoo.de>
Sent : Tuesday, March 2, 2004 8:20 AM
To : ront75@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: Question for seller -- Item #640638760

Hi, please add another $9 for shipping to Louisiana.
sdiztrxw-ipiz@yahoo.de wrote:
Hello, what is the shipping cost to New Mexico?

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Question from: oleyxoux
Title of item: 2.5" 30 Gig Notebook Laptop Hard Disk Drive
Seller: deahuedoo
Starts: Jan-29-03 19:51:23 PDT
Ends: Feb-05-03 19:51:23 PDT
Price: Starts at $87.68
To view the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... =764422670
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does anyone know if i should report this to ebay and where exactly to report it to?

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:38 am

Was that the entirety of the email? Maybe I'm missing the fishy stuff? I know my mother got an email asking her to use her paypal account to partifipate in what "seemed" like a money laundering scheme.. I think she just deleted it though..

RaT · Post by **RaT** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:40 am

yup.. whatevers in "italic" is the entire e-mail. it may just be junk e-mail. i'd only be concerned if someone was "hi-jacking" my account. has this ever happened to anyone here? how would you know?

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:56 am

Ahhh.. I see now.. You may want to attempt to change your password on ebay just to be safe. If you can't change it, or get in, I'd contact ebay from the contact page.

eGo

Post by **TonyH** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:23 pm

Forward any suspicious email that is made to appear that it's from eBay to spoof@ebay.com

If you can make sure that you include the full header with the message.

jmebonner · Post by **jmebonner** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:36 pm

Funny you ask, I'ce been getting the same ones. It always says something like" Add another $12 for shipping to Maryland", or Florida

I have no idea where they come from or why. They're not even to the address I have on file w/ ebay...

Augix · Post by **Augix** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:52 pm

I know about ebay stuff, I got some of those email in the past , basiccly they try to contact you and get information from you , after that, if you tell them that you dont have that account they gonna start asking quest about ur account , till they send another email from "egay" with one link with the scamm shit in where u have to put ur id and pass to verify that you are not linked with that account , obviosuly BS ! its another scam, i guess some ppl go so far that finally bite the scam . dont do anything but just delete them, or as Tony told u foward that to spoof@ebay.com whatever email they have to investigate the scam. anyway they cant do much about it , cause they dont have proof , so dont even waste ur time and delete them. The best scam artist are on ebay , so maybe looks simple but behind that is waiting somethin fishy so that is like the first step of a complex new scam. U know business are running and for them Indonesian buyers with direct credict cards payments or fake escrow sites are not working as they used to. so be careful replying those emails.