eBay Scam Email
You found an email in your inbox inviting you to be an eBay Powerseller. Do not be too excited too soon! Although the quality of the email seems good but if you are not careful you may just be caught off guard of this type of spam email.
Be very suspicious of links in email and do not click on them. It can be difficult to contain our excitement at times when we know we have worked real hard and we are waiting for the invitation from eBay.
To verify that you have received this email from eBay, check in your “My eBay†and go to “Messages Inboxâ€. If eBay have sent you invitation, you should see it there.
Subject: “Invitation to eBay PowerSeller Program”
Welcome to a community of sellers that have achieved exceptional levels of success and positive feedback on eBay!
Why you become a PowerSeller?
PowerSellers are eBay top sellers who have sustained a consistent high volume of monthly sales and a high level of total feedback with 98% positive or better. As such, these sellers rank among the most successful sellers in terms of product sales and customer satisfaction on eBay. We are proud to recognize your contribution to the success of the eBay Community!
If you agree with this rank please click here:
http://202.136.129.229/www.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll.html
Very important!
The registration is active only once.When you see this icon next to the member’s user ID, be assured that the member is a qualified PowerSeller who not only maintains a solid sales record but also a 98% positive feedback rating based on transactions with other eBay users. You can feel assured that your transaction will go smoothly and that you are dealing with one who has consistently met the requirements established by eBay.
There are also other types of scam emails. Commons ones are sellers filing a dispute to you for non-paying item and warning to change your ebay or paypal password. They do make you panic or excited at times.
Take a look at the email above. Did you manage do find anything suspicious?
i am first again. LOL.
the ebay website address is wrong.
It is not ebay website.
Ya, i have beeeen receiving lots of mail from PalPal where i do not register the email account with PalPal
Not only eBay, PayPal, Maybank2u, PublicBank, eGold, IntGold, and many others related to financial services were being used as the phishing method to get the user Identity and passwords.
Always becareful to check the actual link content in every link when you move your mouse over it. It’s better to type the require link instead of clicking on link.
Don’t trust the email sender, it can be look like from a genuine email address.
Regards,
Calvin Chin
it is very funny that i didn’t have ebay account and i get the email from ebay say that if i didn’t settle the payment after i won the bid, they will close my account. LOL.
i found that we will get a lot of spam mails from gmail. And a lot of scam mails in my gmail account.
Scammers, they just don’t quit, do they?
Doraemon, yes, the link look suspicious, and the sentence “if you agree with this rank” is funny.
Boon, do they just send to anyone with an email account ah…
Calvin yes, especially when we are involved in those area, scams can make us believe it is true. Example like when we receive a scam email regarding dispute from eBay, we can really panic.
Gallivanter, scammers don’t quit. they are getting smarter and smarter. They change the way they write their emails. They improved everyday.
As the saying goes “Suckers are born every second, so are conmans”
So either you are a sucker or a conman