Is this an eBay scam?

[Free4Life11]

Ok this is kind of confusing but I think someone is hacking my account! For the past week or so I keep getting emails about tickets to some sold-out "Dropkick Murpheys" show. I have no idea who they are, but at first I just assumed they were some kid on campus sending out a mass email. Then I realized different people were sending them:

met rs <dragos.seller@yahoo.com> Feb 22
Hello
I`m very sorry for disturbing you ,but i`m the seller of the
2 Tickets Dropkick Murphys 3/16/07 SOLD OUT SHOW
I want to sale it at a good price fast ,the price i`m looking forward
to sale it is USD $150 Including shipping taxes ,
Contact me fast for more details about the Item and about clousing the
transaction !
Thank you !

Dum Ivan <dragos.3000@yahoo.com> Feb 24 (5 days ago)
Hello
I`m very sorry for disturbing you ,but i`m the seller of the
2 Tickets Dropkick Murphys 3/16/07 SOLD OUT SHOW
want to sale it at a good price fast ,the price i`m looking forward
to sale it is USD $150 Including shipping taxes ,
Contact me fast for more details about the Item and about clousing the
transaction !
Thank you !

Lauren Budi <budilauren@yahoo.com> Feb 25 (5 days ago)
Hello There,
I'm very sorry for disturbing you, but i'm the seller of the" 2 Tickets Dropkick Murphys 3/16/07 SOLD OUT SHOW "and I want to sale it at a good price fast.This transaction will also be covered under ebay's Protection Program ! I don't want to list the unit again because i don't have time and it is pretty expensive just! Contact me
fast for more details about the item and about closing the
transaction!
Thank you

Hunuzau Dragos <hunuzau_seller@yahoo.com> Feb 25 (4 days ago)
Hello
I`m very sorry for disturbing you ,but i`m the seller of the
2 Tickets Dropkick Murphys 3/16/07 SOLD OUT SHOW US $100.00 260088536803
I want to sale it at a good price fast ,the price i`m looking forward
so please tell me you best price
Contact me fast for more details about the Item and about clousing the
transaction !
Thank you

Finally today I got am email from eBay:

Second Chance Offer System sent you this eBay item

I'm the seller of the item that you've recently bided through the eBay system. I contact you because I wan't to know if you are still interested to buy it. Please email me asap with your answer because I must to know if is necesarly to find another buyer or if you can buy the item for US $150.00. If you can't accept my offer,please let me know how much you can offer me before I will relist the item. I will wait for your email . Thanks!

2 Tickets Dropkick Murphys 3/16/07 SOLD OUT SHOW
Current bid: US $172.50 (16 bids) (Approximately PHP 8,331.72)
Postage: US $1.00
End date: Feb-28-07 18:17:06 PST
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Details for item number: 260089654739

I got curious and clicked on the listing and sure enough, my eBay ID showed a $100 bid on the item! I haven't used the account in over a year!

I tried to log-in today, but like I said the account is old and I couldn't remember the password. I tried the password lookup, but every answer to the secret question was wrong. I don't even know what credit card or banking information is listed on the account and now I'm worried someone has got all my personal information

Is there anything I should do? I emailed eBay and asked them to close the account but they haven't responded. How do I prove that I am the real owner of the account? What a mess I should have just closed the account.

And who in the world are the "Dropkick Murphey's"????

 

[Connieh]

This is a scam and you should send copies of the emails to

Spoof@ebay.com

also never click on a alink in the email, it will take you to a fake ebay site and then they will get your sign on information.

 

[mtemm]

wow! who knew the dropkick murphys would be involved with an ebay scam? okay, not that the band is involved, but that their name is. so weird. they are a great band out of boston! dh deals with them a lot (he works for guinness). they have their own songs, but also do a killer U2 cover. I think they were even on letterman recently.

 

[Pixie Tales]

it's a scam and you should contact ebay right away.. especially if your ID has placed a bid on it..

when you clicked on it, if you used their link in the email, you probably also just put yourself in danger of a keylogger..

Do NOT!!!!! log on to any banking or billing systems you made use.. If you are being keylogged you are in a high risk of them getting more of your personal information...

 

[EpcotMom]

This is a hacker scam. It happened to me last year. Contact Ebay ASAP! They will take appropriate action, and will tell you how to secure your account.

 

[laurie31]

I have gotten three of these in the last two days. They are phishing.

NEVER click the link in the email - always open a new browser and go to ebay.com on your own.


I hope you get everything straightened out...

 

[Free4Life11]

This is a hacker scam. It happened to me last year. Contact Ebay ASAP! They will take appropriate action, and will tell you how to secure your account.

I did Live Help and he told me to forward the email to spoof central.

But I'm almost positive the email is not a spoof because when I look at item #260089654739 on eBay, sure enough I see bids from an eBay ID that is the same ID I use for almost all of my online log-ins.

Even the link takes me directly to http://cgi.ebay.com.....

 

[helenabear]

Just out of curiosity, I looked at that auction and uless you are a user who bid on things this past month and have 43 positive feedback, you didn't bid on that auction.

However if that is your username (ending in 79... I'll PM if you want the whole name) then someone has been using your account and you need to contact e-bay and tell them about the fraud.

This username has bid and won Tennis racquet, snowboard gloves and beer glasses all in the last month

 

[agnes!]

BUT you did click on the link in this suspicious e-mail right? It could just a scam to harvest information about your eBay account or to even perhaps steal your identity . And take a look at all the misspellings...usually EBay/PayPal/American Express will at least run spell-check.

Here's how you can alwys tell if an e-mail is from the purported sender.
Right-click on the e-mail.
A drop-down menu will appear. At the bottom will be "Properties".
Left-click on "Properties".
A "general" box will appear with a "details' tab. Left-click on details.
At the bottom of the "details" box will be "Message Source".
Left-click on Message Source.
Maximize that box.
Look for the last Received-By line.

*Now*, if the last ISP listed is NOT from EBay (I can't remember what exactly EBay's ISP address looks like, but it will have "ebay" in the address line), it's a scam.
If it is something like blahblah.net.nz, you'll know that e-mail is not from
American Express
EBay
PayPal
(your) Bank
(the real)Irish Lottery
etc
Instead it is from some criminal in New Zealand.

A lot of the phishing or scam e-mails will have foreign to US addresses, like .nz or .ru or be from China or Korea. I've gotten them from India, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Poland, New Zealand, etc.

I would tell EBay that you think your account & personal information might have been hacked and you'd like to close that account and start a new username. Also, your really should probably put a fraud alert on any linked credit cards or any linked bank accounts.

agnes!

 

[Free4Life11]

Just out of curiosity, I looked at that auction and uless you are a user who bid on things this past month and have 43 positive feedback, you didn't bid on that auction.

However if that is your username (ending in 79... I'll PM if you want the whole name) then someone has been using your account and you need to contact e-bay and tell them about the fraud.

This username has bid and won Tennis racquet, snowboard gloves and beer glasses all in the last month

Thanks for looking at it. Here's the thing. My email is mhoden@gmail.com and a user named "mhoden" bid on that auction!

When I got the "Second Chance Email" and out of curiosity looked at the bids and saw "mhoden" it just floored me! The reason I got all worried is because I thought maybe "mhoden" was an old username of mine that I forgotten and someone had broken into ti.

Even if "mhoden" is a legitimate eBay user, why would the second chance email have been sent to ME? eBay says it's a spoof, but all the information in the message matches the information on the eBay.com auction listing page.

The email DOES show a sender of "someone@gmail.com" -- would a Second Chance Email be sent from eBay or from specific email?

I talked with Live Help and supposedly have "nothing to worry about." Just seems a little too coincidental to me.

 

[ThePhantomsGirl]

Second chance offers (that are legitimate) ONLY can be done through eBay's system and will show up in your MyMessages. If an email isn't there - then it's not legit!

 

[helenabear]

Is your username on e-bay mhoden? If it is not, I bet the person just tried to contact that person in one of many ways... maybe they weren't getting responses correctly and they did an attempt to contact them and got nothing there so they tried generic e-mails with that username (like did yahoo, gmail, hotmail, aol... etc). Looks like they are desperate to sell.

If your username isn't mhoden it would be a strange coincidence where maybe they did the above and did a copy & paste to send it to you. If it is mhoden, then contact e-bay.

 

[Free4Life11]

You know I think what happened is some scammed was browsing eBay and saw that "mhoden" bid on the concert tickets and then started sending emails to mhoden@_______.com claiming to have tickets for sale.

 

[helenabear]

Hey, that sounds better than my thought!

If you want to feel better about it all, contact the seller through e-bay and make sure they didn't send it. I would doubt it since they only closed the biddinig yesterday. not much time to work down the list to everyone.

 

[RayaniFoxmur]

Thanks for looking at it. Here's the thing. My email is mhoden@gmail.com and a user named "mhoden" bid on that auction!

Believe it or not, if they are actually spam mails, then spiders are getting your e-mail address whenever you type it out like that. They'll scan millions of websites, grab all of the e-mail address (complete, without spaces) that someone typed out and then you'll start getting spam mails.

That's why everyone at my University gets them! Because they published them in the online directory (Um... duh. Stupid University.)

If you're absolutely sure that's your eBay account, they probably wouldn't give you password information unless you called. But they might, I don't know!

What I would do before logging into anything major though, is run a virus and spyware scan on your computer. If nothing else, go to www.trend.com and run the Free Online Scan

 

[va32h]

I get spoof emails that claim to be from ebay or paypal just about every day. The spelling errors are an immediate tip off - or if they use just your email address, and not your actual ebay username.

As other posters have said - never click on a link in an email. Go to ebay.com and check your "My Messages" folder. Legitimate emails from ebay will be in My Messages (even if they were also forwarded to you).

 

[cancer_survivor_06]

I have both ebay and paypals spoof email saved in my address book thats how often I get second chance and non paying bidder emails. In october after selling disney halloween costumes I logged on and than was told that ebay force changed my password because someone kept trying to log in.