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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.134.216 |
I got this email this morning ukrswebhel​p@ebay.com Add to contacts To ************** eBay eBay sent this message to Marc **** (*********). Your registered name is included to help confirm this message originated from eBay. Learn more. MC098 FIB NOTICE: Suspicious Bidder Alert - item # Dear ********************* Our records show that member chicbeautybuys recently won one of your items. We'd like to let you know that eBay has cancelled all this member's bids due to issues relating to their account. As the buyer is no longer a registered user, you are no longer obliged to complete the sale. We recommend that you don't post the item or respond to further emails from the buyer. If someone asks you to continue with the sale outside of the eBay platform, we strongly recommend you ignore the request. Transactions completed outside of eBay aren't protected by our Feedback system. In some cases, sellers have reported receiving an email indicating that they have received payment by PayPal, but in fact this is a fake message. We recommend logging into your PayPal account to confirm that payment was actually received. For more information on spoof messages, please go to: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/account/reporting-spoof.html Here's what you should do now: If you have already posted the item, we suggest you take steps to confirm the payment went through and try to stop postage: 1) Check whether the payment went through 2) Stop postage if possible 3) File an Unpaid Item dispute to get a Final Value Fee credit - Check whether the payment went through If the buyer already sent payment, we recommend you contact the company that was used to send/receive payment to verify whether or not the funds have cleared. If you find that the payment funds are fraudulent, contact your local police as soon as possible. Retain any emails you exchanged with the buyer as the police may need them in order to investigate further. eBay will gladly help the police with their investigations if needed. - Stop postage if possible The postal carrier may be able to stop the delivery. Check their website or return to the post office for further information. If you sent your package via Royal Mail, you may be able to file a mail fraud complaint. For more information, copy this link into a new browser window: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump3?catId=400144&mediaId=15500181 - File an Unpaid Item dispute to get a Final Value Fee credit If you didn't receive payment for this item, please file an Unpaid Item dispute in My eBay. When the dispute is processed successfully, your buyer will receive an Unpaid Item strike and you'll receive a Final Value Fee credit. For more detailed information on Unpaid Item disputes, please copy this link into a new browser window: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/tp/unpaid-item-process.html For additional information about buying and selling safely on eBay, please visit our Safety Centre by copying this link into a new browser window: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre As always, our goal is to keep eBay a safe and reputable place to buy and sell. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Regards, eBay Trust and Safety H18977 Learn More to protect yourself from spoof (fake) emails. This administrative email was sent to ********@***mail.co.uk from eBay Europe S.à r.l.. Your account is registered on www.ebay.co.uk. As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. If you would like to receive this email in text format, change your notification preferences. eBay will periodically send you required emails about the site and your transactions. Read our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions. This email was sent by eBay Europe S.à r.l., which may make use of its affiliates to provide the eBay services. If you are a non-EU resident, please find the contact data of your contracting party in the User Agreement. Copyright © 2011 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay Imprint. This had all the ebay logos on and looked absolutley genuine. Except for the fact that I've only sold 3 itms and none of them were to the buyer named. All the details I've ***'ed out are my correct ebay and hotmail details. I'm not posting this in the amazing rubbish as it's a very plausible scam and if I'd sold lots of items I might have fallen for it. You'll also notice the cheek of the t***s in giving a sales reference starting with FIB Be careful when receiving messages from ebay. This is claerly a phishing scam | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
This is nasty. How would it work - are the links in it false ones where you'd give details thinking it was the real eBay/PayPal site? If I were you, Weber, I'd change my eBay password as whoever sent this clearly knows your details somehow. I once had a situation where someone had hacked into my eBay account and listed a load of fake watches for sale! Fortunately, eBay spotted it and cancelled the listings long before I'd even logged on to my computer that day - they're quite good on that kind of thing. But I was warned to change my password. Have you reported this to them (but not via the link in the email)? I would, as they do seem to take these kinds of scams seriously. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.16.129 |
Forward it here, Marc. spoof@ebay.co.uk | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.153.11.198 |
I got one from PayPal the other day asking me to verify something in my account. It looked genuine but I still didn't like to click the link so I signed into PayPal separately and sure enough, there was nothing there about the email they'd supposedly sent me. I forwarded it to PayPal, who emailed me back to say it definitely hadn't come from them. Then I got a follow-up email saying oh yes, it WAS from them, sorry for any confusion! So which of the three - if any - was genuine?  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.19.9 |
Trouble is that any office in an organisation like that has real trouble distinguishing between outside scams and routine chiselling from other offices which have to devise new ways of ripping off customers because they are paid commission. It's rather like the CIA – you'll remember that the CIA spent over a year leading an international hunt for the terrorists who had sent packages containing anthrax spores within the USA, causing at least one civilian death, before admitting officially that they had sent the deadly mail themselves in order to stimulate government investment in their own anti-terrorist resources... which they had used to 'investigate' their own terrorist acts. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.203.245 |
Do you have a reliable source for that, Joel? I do recall that about a decade ago the CIA admitted to possessing anthrax, but I thought they always denied having any part in the mailing of it. I have seen others suggest that this happened, but I've never seen the CIA themselves admit to it. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.7.172 |
I read that it had been formally admitted – but my source was just a short newspaper report, so not authoritative. It has to be said that the message found in one package – 'Death to America and Israel!' – made any theory of an actual Islamic terrorist source for the anthrax packages hard to credit, as real terrorists rarely talk like terrorist characters in comics. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I don't think that CIA story is true, Joel. That would be bombshell news here, and I've never heard it before reading your post. I believe they've narrowed it down to one scientist who has since deceased, but concerning even that, I'm not sure.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.37.154 |
It was reported as an official statement, not a theory, so either it was misreported or it was withdrawn. Anyway, back to PayPal... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.19.207 |
The statement was made by Dr Barbara Rosenberg of (but not on behalf of, as far as I can tell) the Federation of American Scientists. | ||
| R.B. Russell (Tartarusrussell) Username: Tartarusrussell Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.141.48.28 |
Fascinating stuff, Joel. I don't beleive in a fraction of the conspiracy theories that abound, but from a completely left-field source I'd heard that the suspect packages of white powder sent to the apparently anonymous office building in Florida, allowed the authorities to go in and remove material by way of a threat to the media group who operated from the building. My source for this will be fascinated to have the Dr Barbara Rosenberg lead - thanks Ramsey! |