[clayfoushee]

Luke and others,

Within the last 6 months, there was mass wave of e-mails that looked like very authentic communications from ebay....logo and everything. It asked people to click on a link and fill in account info, like username, password, credit info, etc. to verify their accounts. Anyone who did that lost control of their accounts and had critical personal info. compromised.

Obviously, they were fraudulent, because no company will ever ask for that info, particularly passwords. Ebay now routinely sends out e-mails warning people to that, and they also include that info on their site.

This wave of ebay frauds is easily identifiable by the following:

1) Price too low, and
2) 3-day auction, and
3) Bidder must e-mail to be placed on "pre-qualified bidder list."

If you do e-mail, you'll receive a song and dance about a dead relative, the car is overseas somewhere, and once you wire him several $K overseas, he'll arrange to ship the car.

Thus, it's fairly easy to spot these.