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***Protect Yourself From Spoof Emails***

Some community members have received deceptive emails claiming to come from eBay. Fraudsters who send these emails hope that recipients will reply or click on a link contained in the email and then provide personal information (i.e., eBay passwords, social security numbers and credit card numbers). We refer to these emails as “Spoof Emails.”

We encourage you to be cautious when responding to any email request for personal information. Remember, if you are ever asked to provide information to eBay, you can simply open a new browser, type www.ebay.com, sign-in, and use the Site Map to navigate the site.

You can also take a few simple steps to protect your account and prevent senders of spoof emails from doing harm:

1.Be sure you are on an eBay page – It is generally not a good idea to click on links in an email. However, if you do, be sure that you are signing into a genuine eBay web site by looking at the address/location area of your browser. At an eBay.com sign-in or log-in page, the URL (link) that appears in the address/location area of your browser will begin with "http://cgi.ebay.com/", "https://scgi.ebay.com/" or "http://signin.ebay.com/". Please pay close attention to all characters in the address, including the forward slash (/) that follows "ebay.com". Even if the address/location includes the word "ebay", it may not be a genuine eBay web site.

2. Report Fraudulent Email -- If you have any doubt whether an email is from eBay, use your email client’s “forward” feature to forward a copy of it to spoof@ebay.com immediately with full header information, if possible. If you have already replied to the fraudulent email, contact your bank and/or credit card companies immediately to prevent identity theft.

3. Check Your Account – eBay recommends checking your My eBay and Account Preferences periodically to ensure that no one has tampered with your account.

Your vigilance helps us ensure that eBay remains a safe and vibrant online marketplace. For more information on how to protect your eBay password and your account, please visit the eBay Security Center. You can access the Security Center by clicking on Help from the Navigation Bar at the top of every eBay page, then clicking on the "Security Center" link.

regards eBay

Keep Spyware OFF your Computer

Do you ever get pop-ups or spam as a result of surfing eBay?
This would be because of spyware on your computer.

Use Ad-Aware. A free program at
Link

great freebie for killing spyware...also has a cookiewall.

ALSO...if you use Gator or another program to save passwords, etc.? This is the BEST way for hackers to get ALL your password info in one 'convenient' place...what was convenient for you...also is for them. Don't make it easy for any would be hackers.

More tips:
remember to keep your virus protection up to date.

Please know that when the transactions start adding up, you never know how many times your email addy gets added to address books of many eBay users. Most virus afflictions are not the result of hackers..just the fact that someone did not keep their 'own' puter up to date.

A good tip for us all to remember is to disable the action in your email program which automatically adds any email you reply to...to your address book.

Some more good info about passwords:

Help from Memberair*america*

Flash! Consider for Your Password!
I believe eBay has changed the format somewhat and no longer gives the "secret question" and the opportunity to try and crack the registrant's code; no longer just gives the information on following pages instead of sending it to the registrant's email address. Still, passwords are among the weakest link, if used as most do and just use some simple word or the like.

I have discovered that it is possible to have more than 30 characters in your password and the word you use as the response to the "Password hint." If you are not familiar with the use of the "Alt" key and the number pad over on the far right of your keyboard, no matter. This will tutor you about that.

The Alt key and selected number combinations on the keypad will give you characters not on a standard keyboard. The one that comes to mind is the letter "ß" in the German alphabet which stands for the letters "ss." If you will depress the Alt key now, and hold it and enter these numbers on the keypad, you will get this "ß." Depress Alt and enter these numbers 0 2 2 3. ß should be your result.

There are a whole passel of these starting with 0 0 3 3 which gives "!" I would suggest using at least 8 of these characters along with a meaningless random entry of 8 letters and numerals. In other words 9g (then Alt+0200) which gives È and Alt+0 2 1 0 which gives Ò. So now you have made the first four characters "9gÈÒ" Repeat this until you have a minimum of 16 characters and you will have an uncrackable password or password hint. i.e. "9gÈÒh5ÿñl2Óº4xÖÇ" I recommend writing down the Alt+ strokes you make so that if you ever need to retrieve them, you won't be forever excluded (it does such a good job.) It might be beneficial for you to discern all of these characters as they are helpful in showing your prowess with words like 'façade' or 'voilá' (in French for instance.) Good luck and beep if you need help!

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EBAY says do not trust those who do not give a phone number. OOPs ebay will not give you their phone number. What does that say about EBAY. HYPOCRITS

We would like to trust ebay so give us your number proudly displayed on home page!!!

HI,
Sure glad you didn't submit anything.
The problem with the links, and you never know for sure...but they can sometimes put spyware on your computer. It's good to use a clean-up program like Ad-Aware to remove such. Can't hurt to change your password as well.

Since you did try to submit....please do Change your password and watch your other information.


Also do a spyware cleanup.

You are Welcome. Stay Safe and pass the word.

There would be a lot less problems on eBay, and the rest of the internet too, if all new users were required to read this thread.

Good job Button!

I am new at posting on discussion board (approx. 2 months) and I was posting previously in the front porch and a couple of times here also....I was told before I decided to not post there anymore, that you have to introduce yourself first, so here it is, My Ebay user Id. is titfille (as you will see - name that my husband was calling me when we were going out together then it became titfemme) I have 2 children, a boy and a girl and am the proud grandmother of now 2 grandchildren, (As God already decided to recall one of my little angels at the age of 8 in a fire, 4 years ago...) I live in Florida (Sunshine State) and love the beautiful SUN.....
So here is what concerns me quite a bit, for the past 2 or 3 months I keep on receiving the same spoof email supposedly coming from Paypal, letting me know that I paid phonebuyer451@yahoo.com an amount close to $300.00...I have forwarded this email everytime to spoof@paypal and spoof@ebay, they always tell me that they are looking into this matter and I still as of today, 2 to 3 months later receive the same type of emails....Could anyone let me know if Paypal or Ebay are really looking into this matter....