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Has any1 ever received an email from Ebay telling them that their account will be suspended if they don't update their details.

I clicked a link which sent me to a log in page. I entered my name and password.

Then I found myself on a page that asked for my details.

Card number, security cods, and ATM pin number.

hmm

Then I realised it must be a hoax.


I was a bit concerned that I'd typed in my log-in password though.

I tried the link again, this time typing in a random (incorrect) password with my log-in name. It still worked and I was once again sent to the financial details page.

Has any1 else received this message?

Is it definately a hoax?

And is the log-in password I typed in safe?

I'd say no and it's time to go password changing.

Ok guys - the way to check it's a hoax is to look at the url address once you have gone through the link - this will not be the web address of the site it should be - if that makes sense!! 

Tracey

Change you password right now and be quick.....!
hurry up why are you reading this change your password.

It is a hoax - where i work i get about 15-20 junk emails a day of which 85% of them are made up of emails from 3 "hoaxers".

Ebay
Halifax
Lloyd TSB

All asking for personal details due to their system crashing. The junk email filter picks them all up for me now and i just go in once a day and delete them all.

after changing your password go to the real ebay site and inform them of what happened and at what time. Hopefully then anything dodgy you will not be done for.

Yes - they have a specific link for hoax email notification.

also you get mails claiming to be from a buyer of something you have sold - dont click on these either.  If in doubt, log into your ebay account and check the messages via the My Ebay section - any genuine messages from ebay will also be in here.

When Ebay send out any mail now it is addressed to you by your whole name so you know it is genuine.

The reason these people want your password is because if you use the same password for your email they can then go into your account and change the email address while they use your account to " sell " something , then they change it back without you knowing , so make sure you have different passwords.

Also as said anything that is genuine will always be in " My Ebay " as well.

ACES

I've changed my bank passwords and also my email passwords.

Is there a way to check that my email accounts weren't accessed?

Many thx for the help every1. These people make me sick.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/contact_us/_base/index.html?tier0=account_security.html

Report it as spoof asap, they will phone you or it will give you a phone number

Or they will just email you and thank you for informing them and confirm that it was in fact a hoax email.

As Simon said, official Ebay emails will now address you in your full name  i.e.  Joe Bloggs  as opposed to Dear Customer/Seller/Buyer  etc.

Snoopy I did the same as you a while ago  :(  If you have changed all of your passwords you should be fine.  I bet you will be a lot more careful from now on though...

No company will ever send you an email asking you to 'confirm your details', 'activate security safeguards' or any other type of thing by clicking on a link - these emails are all frauds.

I got a great one the other day from Citibank asking me to click on a link to confirm my details. Never mind that I don't have an account with them.

The text of the link was

www.somestuff.citibank.com/big-long-url-with-lots-of-numbers

Whereas, actually examining where the link actually went to:

www.somestuff.citibanko.com/big-long-url-with-lots-of-numbers

Who would like to take my bet that Citibanko has absolutely nothing to do with Citibank?

Yeah, I get so bloody many from 'ebay', 'halifax', 'lloyds', and 'saxo', all asking for account details.  They change their 'sent from' address every time as well, so I can't even filter them using the junk e-mail feature.  That along with all the bloody viagra sales websites I get e-mails from... and before you ask.. NO!  hehe

Never ever use links in emails particularly those which you know have sensitive information.

Banks, ebay, paypal etc etc.

Use the main page that you normally goto to get to the site and navigate from there.

Sandy

Hoax, 100%.

Large companies never really ask for details like this.

It is VERY easy to knock up an email like this to make it look like it came from EBay.

This is NOT true.

It is easy to send an email to you from EBay using your whole name.

Is it worth me pasting the email in here so people know what to look out for?

Good idea mate.

Get them all the time. Really annoys me, so i got a secure email account and have all internet type business stuff go through there.

Here's one possible solution.....

Stop buying and selling tat on the internet  ;goodvevil; ;goodvevil; ;goodvevil;

i get 5 or 6 of these a week from ebay and i dont even have an ebay account

i also get a whole hog from different banks of which i havent got an account

never click on the links in an email without checking its location first

you can do this by move the mouse over the link and in the bottom toobar it will tell you where its sending you

if the link is different from what you think then its a fake

just as clicking www.bbc.co.uk (http://www.blondepoker.com) would take you to blondes homepage and not the bbc's

I deactivated online access to my bank account.

Changed all my passwords, including my ebay one.

Do I need to do anything else?

cancel any card that is linked to your ebay account and get replacements

Have you doublechecked that all your details on ebay haven't been changed?

....and lock your bathroom door.

I get these spoof emails all the time, the best way to check if they are genuine or not is to check the source code.

Click "view" up top, then source.   Then when the notepad pops up with the source code in, click edit then find.

Type in mail or email.  If it finds a dodgy email infront of word mailer, then this means when you log in to that page the mailer sends the info you typed into the login page back to the bstards email address.

Oh and by doing this you can get the culprits email and report them to Ebay.

never ever click on something in an email.