[lace] Warning to ebayers

[Jean Nathan]

Thought this warning was very important to cross post to warn anyone who 
buys on ebay of a new type of scam rmail that I got yesterday. It was 
supposedly from a seller, although it started 'Dear seller', asking if I was 
still interested in their item. It had a link identical to the real ones 
which go to an item for sale, and when clicked on led to a genuine-looking 
sign-in page, which you are sometimes adked to do. I closed that, went to 
ebay in the usual way and searched for the item number - it didn't exist.

I forwarded the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and they've confirmed that it was 
a scam email.

What alerted me to it being phishing was that:
(1) It started 'Dear seller', when it should have been 'buyer'.
(2) I've not bid on anything I haven't won in the last couple of weeks, and 
I haven't asked a seller a question so I haven't expressed interest in 
anything.
(3) The sign-in page the link led to started hhtp://www.181.10....... , 
which isn't how the address of genuine ebay sites start.

The email looked right in every other way, using ebay's text and logos.
If you've been caught by this one, and entered your details, change your 
password now, and contact ebay.

Jean in Poole 

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