Hover your mouse. Most scams can make the page look official, make the
email address appear legit, but can't fool your mouse. Hover the mouse
over the link or button in question and the line at the bottom of your
email or browser window reveals the address the click will send you to.
Check the respond button on an official email from a buyer/seller and
remember what it says. It needs to say something like
http://contact.ebay.com/ws/.......a whole long line here including the
auction item number. My son pointed this out to us on a scam we got once
and it revealed some numerical site and mentioned nothing in the line
about ebay, even though the email looked for all the world to be official.
Dave
Ronald A. Fine wrote:
> There's all kinds of scams on Ebay. I just received an official looking
>email telling me that I didn't pay for a purchase and asking me to respond to
>some phony ebay site by clicking on a box. I suspected it was a phony and
>forwarded a copy to Ebay. They immediately sent me a response telling me it
>was a phony email and pointing out that they never send emails unless they are
>listed in "my messages" on my ebay account page.
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: "dwflagg@juno.com" <dwflagg@juno.com>
>> Sent: Apr 5, 2006 12:23 PM
>> To: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re:eBay Scam
>>
>> There is apparently a new scam on eBay.
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