Ebay and Paypal users

[DVNT1]

Are you aware of...

http://65.169.173.12/ieproblem/example.html ?

Be sure to try the links.

No information is obtained in this example.

Original problem posted by LittleKing in http://www.techimo.com/forum/t92070.html

This will happen and it won't just be a safe example. It won't just be PayPal and Ebay either. Educate your friends and family of the problem. It will come from extremely real looking emails that utilize spoofed senders too.

[Dooin' it]

Yes...........the easiest way to save yourself is by checking the url of the link!!!! Usually you'll see something like this when you hover over the link with your pointer.............

http://signin.ebay.com/blahblahblah/blahblahblah@.....<----"note this is the key to spam notification.............followed by a rather humongously long url extension!

Also, ebay will probably NEVER link you for confirmation from an e-mail. They will almost ALWAYS ask you to go to ebay.com & sign in the regular way & THEN confirm whatever they're asking of you!!!

Same for paypal and includes one more line of security...........if you don't see HTTPS://........<-----here the "S" being important as you're on a 128bit encrypted connection...............then you're not on Paypal's website!!!!

Lots of this going around these days!!! Sad, the world is so !@%!@# up!!!!!!

[MDS]

Another safe bet is never ever log into ebay or paypal via a link of any kind from an email. Alway go directly to the site and log in.

[DVNT1]

Originally posted by Dooin' it
Yes...........the easiest way to save yourself is by checking the url of the link!!!! Usually you'll see something like this when you
hover over the link with your pointer.............

http://signin.ebay.com/blahblahblah/blahblahblah@.....<----"note this is the key to spam notification.............followed by a rather humongously long url extension!

Notice though, in my example this precaution doesn't help.

Also, ebay will probably NEVER link you for confirmation from an e-mail. They will almost ALWAYS ask you to go to ebay.com & sign in the regular way & THEN confirm whatever they're asking of you!!!

Yes but they often put a link to their site in the email. I could have just as easily done this with the www.ebay.com as I did with signin.ebay.com

Same for paypal and includes one more line of security...........if you don't see HTTPS://........<-----here the "S" being important as you're on a 128bit encrypted connection...............then you're not on Paypal's website!!!!

I could also taken a more time and made it an SSL enable site so again, HTTPS isn't a sure sign of a genuine site.

Lots of this going around these days!!! Sad, the world is so !@%!@# up!!!!!!

too true

[butch81385]

your true link was http://SignIn.ebay.com
%00@65.169.17...h-h-sin-US.htm
which does follow that... hovering doesnt always catch it, but copying the url does...

[DVNT1]

^

[Mike]

Originally posted by MDS
Another safe bet is never ever log into ebay or paypal via a link of any kind from an email. Alway go directly to the site and log in.

That's good advice. Kind of like logging onto Paypal or an AOL account.

[osprey4]

Very cool, DVNT1!

[dauss]

Good link and information. Good thing I use opera.

[DVNT1]

MS recently acknowledged the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833786 but no fix for it yet.