Uncovered how to spot a scam or fake eBay message at 20 paces.
Have you ever got an email which claims to come from eBay and your not quite sure if it’s a eBay scam or spoof with some one trying to get you to click on one of those links which sends all your personal details on your PC to the dodgy person who sent you it?
I am lucky really I have all sorts of aids to prevent me sending emails or any thing else for that matter with firewalls, warnings and bunch of early warning devices. But wouldn’t you like to be absolutely sure you didn’t accidently send all your details in to the eagerly waiting hands of eBay scam or con artist.
Lets start with the obvious ways of stopping things going wrong and then we can build from there…
It’s pretty straight forward actually to tell if an email came form eBay or not and I think you find the following information helpful. If you know any other techniques please let everyone know at http://www.auctionwealthsecrets.com/auctionnews/ my eBay blog.
1. Look at the email FROM address: If you are tempted to open one of these emails check the from address in the email it should only be from eBay.com no other address as ebay does not use addresses like @securityebay.com, ebaysecurity.net or even eBay@Baycom.com if in any doubt of the origin delete the message.
2. Where would the link in the email take you will indicate straight away that that email is from a scammer. Carefully place your mouse of over the link and confirm for yourself. Under no circumstances click on the link.
Look in the bottom left corner of your screen just above the Start button. It should show the location of the link you are about to click. If the link does not START, and I mean start, with http://www.ebay.com ..then it is a scam email. Hit the delete button or forward it to spoof@ebay.com (they can sometimes trace these eBay scammers and stop them).
Another top tip is to block the email address in your email client (Outlook or what ever you use ) so that they can’t send any more emails to you from that address.
3. Don’t reply to any email until you have considered it’s orgin and content. Many eBay scammers refer to transactions which never took place. If you haven’t brought and item don’t reply to the email and don’t fall for the trick question about an item you haven’t listed either.
A common spoof techique is to send a winning bidder email If you haven’t bid on the named item and even if you have just wait a few minutes. As I am about to give you a fool proof technique to preventing making a mistake …You are waiting aren’t you?
Ok here is a fool proof way of making sure you DON’t get burned by scam emails pretending to be from eBay or eBay buyers and sellers. It’s so basic but totally fool proof.
All genuine emails sent through eBAY from either themselves, or eBay buyers and sellers will have a copy sent to your MY EBAY account and if you can’t find it there it hasn’t come from a genuine eBay source. See I said it was so easy didn’t I. So the best way is to delete every potential scam email sent to your email address and communicate with eBay and buyers and sellers using the internal eBay systems set up. This way you can sleep soundly in your bed knowing you are safe from eBay scam emails.
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