e-bay virus alert

[Dee4j]

Just wanted to FYI everyone since I see alot of people here use e-bay. there is a virus going around and its in an e-mail about a bid you made on E-Bay. Luckily DH is very up on viruses daily as we've had this e-mail 3 or 4 times. today was about a bid on a laptop. delete it... the virus is attached to the e-mail directly, not an attachment in the e-mail..

[brainpause]

Thanks, Dee. Appreciate the warning.

Larry

[Gone-Camping]

It's a shame really, but I've taken to deleting ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that comes in the mail that I'm not 110% sure about. If I don't know the sender, it just get's deleted without ever looking at it. I don't know how much legit mail I trash each week, but it doesn't matter...at least I haven't got hit by a bug in a couple of years....Norton helps...vigilience works!!!

[copcarguy]

I do the same thing as Gone-Camping...  If it looks weird, out it goes...  One eBay fake I got was that I was the winner of a Chevy Expedition Tdi.  You think they would at least have made it a real truck not a Chevy/Ford/VW combo.  There has been a lot of this going around, and eBay (and now PayPal as well) have made up email addresses to send these fakes to.

ebay is:  spoof@ebay.com
PayPal is: spoof@paypal.com
 
I hope this helped, and if someone is asking for your account info and/or passwords via email, consider it 100% FAKE and just delete it!!

[angelsmom10]

I also delete any thing that I'm not definitely sure of who sent it.  I was getting for quite a while, my paypal account is getting deleted or something along that line, but the email addresses that this was coming to is not listed on my paypal account (I only have 4 email accounts).

[Dee4j]

I do the same thing as Gone-Camping...  If it looks weird, out it goes...  One eBay fake I got was that I was the winner of a Chevy Expedition Tdi.  You think they would at least have made it a real truck not a Chevy/Ford/VW combo.  There has been a lot of this going around, and eBay (and now PayPal as well) have made up email addresses to send these fakes to.

ebay is:  spoof@ebay.com ("spoof@ebay.com")
PayPal is: spoof@paypal.com ("spoof@paypal.com")
 
I hope this helped, and if someone is asking for your account info and/or passwords via email, consider it 100% FAKE and just delete it!!

WOW what a unique truck :yikes: ..thanks for the place to send the spoofs but everyone should be aware you can only do this if your mail client doesn't OPEN your mail when its selected. Netscape automatically opens when selected (unless the settings are wrong) but our webmail doesn't.

[cruiserpop]

problem is not with the emails, problem is with the pictures, including the ebay logo that sellers have downloaded from ebay, and are using in their officail and sanctioned messages to buyers. a bout a month ago, someone hacked ebay, and loaded a virus into  many of the graphics. many people on the site the next day got infected. didn't even have do click on anything-just getting the picture got it into your system-got hit with it myself. ebay pulled most of the graphics the next day and relolded them with fresh ones, but some of the sellers contunue to use the infected graphics, knowlingly or unknowlingly. i've posted about this on the ebay community board, to no avail. point is, keep your antiviral program up to date, and your finger on the delete button.