…in a phishing scam
** Hey, somebody who IS on eBay and is here because they received the phishing email, be a good netizen and contact yatsy999 on eBay and let him know, would ya? **
This neat little phishing attempt came through this morning. I picked it up on my iPhone – on which it appeared convincingly like something from eBay might look.
If I was a regular eBay user (I avoid it like the plague as it happens along with its unholy sibling, PayPal), I might be tempted to fall for this email. It’s cleverly designed to provoke you into thinking that someone out there thinks you haven’t paid for something. Someone is wrong!! That’s a powerful psychological attractor. You go Google to check on yatsy999 and find he does in fact sell VW camper van parts on eBay. But since you haven’t bought any camper van parts, he must be wrong – and that leaves you feeling both aggrieved and right.
“I’ll show him” you think.
And right there in the email is a nice big ‘Respond Now’ button to help you do just that.
Of course, if you click it, you’ll go through to a site that looks just like an eBay login page (although the URL is nothing like an eBay URL). Enter your details in that login page and you’d be handing your eBay login details over to the scammers.
Like a good cybercitizen I wanted to let yatsy999 know that his account is being used for a phishing scam. Only I couldn’t without logging into eBay.
All I could do is tweet and blog and hope he picks it up somewhere.
Thank god someone put some info on this, I was thinking the same thing as the msg appear on my old ebay account email address, I sent a copy of the msg to ebay, it was abit odd since it said “dear member” not my ebay username.
Even way, I wont be looking at my spam folder anytime soon and luckly that SOAB doesnt know my new ebay account.