eBay .com is probably the largest market place in the world! On eBay items are sold trough auction or direct purchases with 'BUY NOW'. You can find anything you need on it; these days it includes even real estate properties, airplanes, cars and more. There are many people running their businesses on this site and making lost of profit monthly.
The importance of information at eBay
If you run a business on eBay, your information is so important because your eBay account will be linked to your Pay pal account and will also have your credit card number and other such important details.
Scammers are able to have your information in their hands and thereby will cause you to lose your online business or start again. Also they may buy products using your eBay account and u will be responsible for that not them!!!!!
eBay phishing email
An eBay scam usually try to distress you with a warning email subject for example: " your account has been suspend" or "change your password" and may also be formatted to like a legitimate email. But there are some points with which you can identify the fraud ; the email will not be addressed to you and the given link on it, will not be from the eBay.com web site.
You can see examples of eBay phishing email here
As you can see in these two examples there are two important point that show they are fraud;
1. They are not sent to a particular name or users.
2. The given link on them is not for eBay.com site
How can we protect ourselves from eBay phishing attacks?
- Do not respond immediately! Take a moment to go through the email and try to find the fraud points.
- If it doesn't have your name or eBay username ,it's probably a scam!
- Is the link you are asked to click on from the eBay.com web site?
- Is the eBay logo included in the message?
- If you are indeed upset by a email, open a new browser window and go to the eBay.com web site instead of clicking a link from the email.
http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/articles/ebay_phishing_examples_advice.php
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