Roland wrote (on the British cars list) :
> He had recently bid on something on EBay and soon afterwards had
> received an e-mail saying that there was some problem with his credit
> card verification and could he visit the EBay site and re-submit his
> credit
> card information. The message included a supposed link to EBay
> where he could re-enter his credit card number, etc. Turns out this was
> a fake link to some credit card scammer's site. He ended up with a
> bunch of fraudulent charges being charged against his account.
There is a similar scam making the rounds, that is just trying to collect
eBay account names and passwords. The email says your account will be
deactivated if you don't go log into the eBay site, and of course has a link
to a fake site. The fake is very good (so I'm told), the web site looks
realistic and the link even has 'ebay' in it. I'm not sure how to avoid
this one, except to know that eBay never does this.
Randall
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