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Be careful if you get an email from Ebay telling you that you are eligible to win $10.000 just for entering a contest to pick your favorite vehicles.
They are asking for username and password.
Log on to Ebay from your usual source and check your messages to see if they are offering this chance to win.
I checked my Ebay, and no such message.
Just a heads up that we always gotta check everything before giving out passwords.
Bob.
I received it as well. Hotmail thinks it's from a trusted sender. It looks real, based on other ebay emails I have. I didn't read the whole thing but I didn't see any weird language or obvious errors. I get emails from ebay about events that don't show up in my ebay messages. Better safe than sorry, but it may be valid.
sorry, if an email asks for you name and password and you believe it, you deserved to be hacked.
I would never, ever give my username or password in response to an email, regardless of how legit the page looks.
My bank is a common target for these phishing expeditions, and more often than not, the email page looks exactly like the page on my banks web site.
Bob.
sorry, if an email asks for you name and password and you believe it, you deserved to be hacked.
I haven't seen this email myself, but I assumed he meant there was a link in the email that you clicked that took you to an Ebay looking log-on that asked for your user name and password. These sites can look quite authentic, sometime even with a spoofed website address on the address bar. If I get any correspondence from business I deal with on the internet, I always open a new browser session to get to there website.
Unfortunately anyone can fall to these type of emails. I did so once myself, but soon as I typed in my password in, I realized my error and immediately logged on the real Ebay website and changed my password. I can't say I ever been successfully scammed, but I came close. Once I shipped something where I thought was been paid, but it turned out to be a fake email confirming payment into my account. I was able to use my UPS account to contract UPS and tell them not to deliver, return to sender. UPS even refunded the shipping fees.
I think a better life lesson would be that strangers do NOT go around offering to give you money for nothing.
that too
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