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Posted by kim on 03/21/07 13:07
"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:56chggF27p474U1@mid.individual.net...
> Yesterday I got 5 emails from an ebay customer, sent via ebay to my ebay
> userid, telling me to go shop for their products (or something).
>
> Today ebay emailed me to say "It appears that your eBay password has
> become known to a third party."
>
> That's nice of them to let me know they messed up. Of course I never
> clicked anything in any email and I doubt my password _was_ actually
> compromised. My guess is someone may have been trying to crack it or
> something so ebay changed the password. (?)
How do you know it was eBay who emailed you?
A common scam is to pose as someone from eBay and claim your password has
been compromised. If you reply to the link given you are presented with a
fake eBay screen asking you to log in.
If a warning from eBay is genuine it will be repeated on the My eBay page. I
always go to that first and see if there are any messages waiting to be
read. Another clue is when an email purporting to come from eBay.co.uk has a
return address of eBay.com
(kim)
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