PayPal and Ebay Scams Still Happening
PayPal and Ebay have often been the target of criminals who attempt to phish or hack the organisation and/or its clients. Phishing attacks are usually e-mails trying to trick account holders into entering their details to fake websites that look like the real thing.
If you fall for it, you’re sending your Ebay or PayPal account number, as well as passwords and even credit card information, to a criminal. Any guesses whether this criminal will then use that information to empty your PayPal or bank account. Also, they may well use your Ebay account for other scams.
Here’s a couple of samples of scam emails
"Dear PayPal User, Today we had some trouble with one of our computer systems. While the trouble appears to be minor, we are not taking any chances. We decided to take the troubled system off-line and replace it with a new system. Unfortunately this caused us to lose some member data. Please follow the link below and log into your account to make sure your information is not affected. Account balances have not been affected."
Dear PayPal client, While performing it's regular scheduled monthly billing address check our system found incompatible information which seams to be no longer the same with your current credit card information that we have on file. If you changed your billing information or if you moved from you previous address please follow up the link bellow and update your billing information: If you didn't change any of this information you still need to follow up the previous link and update your existing billing information because it means that our database regular scheduled update wasn't made correctly. Choosing to ignore this message will result in to a temporary suspension of your account within 24 hours, until you will choose to solve this unpleasant situation.We apologies for any inconvenience this may caused you and we strongly advise you to update your information you have on file with us.
The scams will send account holders to a fake website where the victim will give up their details. The scams are quite sophisticated and the fake emails arrive with PayPal or Ebay logos.
The PayPal Security Center, located within the organization’s website, gives some good instructions for spotting phishing scams.
Ebay have some good information here
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