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HIJACKED ACCOUNT

 

PROTECT YOURSELF FROM GETTING SCAMMED.

FIRST OF ALL:

NEVER - EVER CONTACTED EMAIL ADDRESS POSTED ON AN AUCTION DIRECTLY. ALWAYS USE EBAY "ASK SELLER A QUESTION". Located on the right top item page under the seller's ID.

NEVER - EVER PAY YOUR EBAY ITEM BY BANK WIRE   TRANSFER or WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER/ ORDER FOR ANY REASON.

ALWAYS CHECK THE SELLER REPUTATION BEFORE YOU BID OR BUY.  A PAPER CLIPS SELLER THAT SUDDENLY OFFERING $5,000.00 HIGH TECH ITEM SHOULD BE IN A RED ALERT. ASK SELLER A QUESTION (click on right top ebay page not email address posted in the item description).

DO NOT SO EXCITING WITH ITEM THAT HAS NO PAYPAL PAYMENT OPTION. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG.

Please read further below, everything you need to know about ebay scams and how to avoid them . . . . 

NEW SCAM MODEL. STARTING EARLY DEC 2007

 

 

HIJACKED EBAY ACCOUNT

SAMPLE OF A FRAUDULENT ITEM AUCTIONED:

I am sure that Ebay will remove this item soon, so when you searching for this item # 110185739386, it will no longer exist. 

See the date and the item number below, also the hijacker e-mail address. I blotted the seller and highest bidder IDs to protect their identities. The highest bid was $79.00 when I captured this page but it jump to $1,575.00 within few hours. See the pictures below.

NO harmful/ spoof/ phising links Clickable in this page.

This Hijacker listed the item (a Leica M8) right under the legit account owner's nose!

 

 

Below is part of the list captured from the SELLER'S OTHER ITEMS.

The Hijacker listed the item (Leica M8) right under the account owner's nose!

 

Below is ANOTHER BOGUS LISTING/ ITEM LISTED UNDER A HIJACKED ACCOUNT. This time the hijacker created a JPG file to put their e-mail address so you won't able to search by ADVANCE SEARCH FEATURE I mentioned in my guides.

 

 

 

Nov 18/07 10.26 pm - I have no idea how much is the ebay fee for 15,225 item listed by the hijacker above but this one, the victim is a U.K seller.

 

WITHIN A FEW HOURS . . . . . . . . 

 

Below is sample of a FAKE PAYPAL EMAIL, confirmed by paypal. 

See also FAKE and REAL EBAY EMAIL at the bottom of this page

Dear scambuster

Thanks for taking an active role by reporting suspicious-looking emails. The email you forwarded to us is a phishing email, and our security team is working to disable it. ------------------------- What is a phishing email? ------------------------- Phishing emails attempt to steal your identity and will often ask you to reveal your password or other personal or financial information. PayPal will never ask for your password over the phone or in an email and will always address you by your first and last name. Take our Fight Phishing Challenge at https://www.paypal.com/fightphishing to learn 5 things you should know about phishing. You'll also see what we're doing to help fight fraud every day. ------------------------- You've made a difference. ------------------------- Every email counts. By forwarding a suspicious-looking email to spoof@paypal.com , you've helped keep yourself and others safe from identity theft. 

Thanks, The PayPal Team

SAMPLE OF A FAKE PAYPAL NOTIFICATION

 

These crooks will  send you this kind of fake ebay invoice hope that you will click to the link to see what is going on because You are sure that you did not buy or sell something on ebay lately.

BELOW ARE EBAY FAKE AND REAL EMAILS. SEE THE "FROM" AND "TO" SECTION.

Basically, If you click the link in this fake e-mail, you will redirect to the fake website where they will capture and steal your password, so be careful. But in this page, there is no more links, I have disabled them and presented as jpg format.

 

BELOW IS A FAKE EBAY INVOICE

 

Yahoo and Gmail will warns you if you have windows defender installed in your computer as you can see below. Google search WINDOWS DEFENDER and download it for free and easy. make sure that you are in the real microsoft site. 

BELOW IS A REAL EBAY INVOICE

REAL EBAY EMAIL ABOVE IN FULL HEADER but with altered IPs address:

From eBay Member: XXXXXX Wed Oct 17 20:18:46 2007 
X-Apparently-To: scambuster@buster.com via 66.196.130.86; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:47 -0700 
X-Originating-IP: [66.185.137.26] 
Return-Path: <checkout@ebay.com> 
Authentication-Results: mta107.pa.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=ebay.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) 
Received: from 66.135.197.26 (EHLO mx39.sjc.ebay.com) (66.185.197.26) by mta107.pa.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:47 -0700 
Received: from sr-wpay017 (sr-wpay017.smf.ebay.com [10.10.189.27]) by mx39.sjc.ebay.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l9I3IkST024811 for <scambuster@buster.com>; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:46 -0700 
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:46 -0700 
Message-ID: <1581407810.1192677526578.JavaMail.SYSTEM@sr-wpay017> 
From: "eBay Member: xxxxxx" <checkout@ebay.com> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert 
Reply-to: xxxxxxx@gmail.com 
To: scambuster@buster.com 
Subject: Your invoice for eBay purchases - item # 1901618xxxxx, NWT GUESS MARCIANO CROPPED PINK DENIM JEANS CAPRI 28 S 
Mime-Version: 1.0 
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=640689712.1192677526547.JavaMail.SYSTEM.sr-wpay017 
X-eBay-MailTracker: 10025.533.0.0 
Content-Length: 20725


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