Ebay fake emails

[racall]

Folks
Just to let you know there are a lot of fake EBAY emails about asking you to update your detials .

Do not reply to them.

 

[Motard]

Thanks for that Racall.

Bob

 

[Shude]

If you do get e-mails from any companies, don't follow the links you are sent unless you are sure they are genuine. I got an e-mail from ebay a while ago telling me to change my password, there had been a security risk with some accounts. Not even ebay gave me a link to their page, they said to go to the main ebay website and log-in from there to do it.

 

[guydewdney]

ditto paypal and (as im sure has ben noted) various banks - esp barclays for some reason

 

[Sp!ke]

ditto paypal and (as im sure has ben noted) various banks - esp barclays for some reason

Below is a library of phishing emails.. (thanks Satch)

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identitytheft/spoof-email-and-spoof-web-page-library.htm

 

[simonl]

Another handy tip related to this subject: If you do follow a link in an email and want to check the website displayed corresponds to the url show in the address bar, use the following bookmarklet:

Create a bookmark in your browser with the following info, then select it. A window pops up telling you the actual url vs the reported url. The server names should match.

Name:
jscript: Get actual URL (verbose)

Location:
java_script_:alert(%22The actual URL is:\t\t%22 + location.protocol + %22//%22 + location.hostname + %22/%22 + %22\nThe address URL is:\t\t%22 + location.href + %22\n%22 + %22\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.%22);

[this is one line, no carriage returns. remove _'s from java_script_]

 

[Andy W]

I think that I may of been had by the safe harbour request, I have already changed my password just in case. Am I in deep s!*t or what ?