One way to spot a fhilshing site is to use an
incorrect password for your account. If it's a
legit site, it should complain. If it's a fake,
it won't know that the password is wrong. *Unless*
the site is trying that password right then and there
at the legit site.... SO better not use this method.

"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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One way to spot a fhilshing site is to use an
incorrect password for your account. If it's a
legit site, it should complain. If it's a fake,
it won't know that the password is wrong. *Unless*
the site is trying that password right then and there
at the legit site.... SO better not use this method.


E-Bay does send out e-mails..... BUT they won't ask for your info MOST of
the time, unless there is truly a problem. The one SURE FIRE METHOD to know
if you're talking to E-BAY and not some spoof site, is to have gone to
www.ebay.com and entered it into your favorites and enter the site from
there to do any business, NOT from any e-mail.

IF you are suspicious about any e-mail stating it is from E-Bay, then you
can send it to and they will check it and let you know if it
is legit or not. IF it is not legit, you'll know pretty quick. IF it IS
legit, they'll tell you that too, and what to do about it.

I would NEVER EVER enter any info into an e-mail "stating" it is from E-Bay.
There are too many shams running out there which mimic E-Bay and "look"
legitimate. What I did find though once when I went to reply to the ass
holes who sent a similar message as I knew it was fake, was a name came up
on the screen. They had a Yahoo address. I forwarded the message to E-Bay at
the spoof address as mentioned. I do with all others as well.

The operative word here is ASSUME. NEVER ASSUME the messages you may get
"are" from E-Bay. In this day and age, you have to be very on the ball with
where you plug in your information. One of the biggest lines the scammers
use, is your account will be deleted or some such wording unless you do this
or that - asking for information. THAT IS A MAJOR TIP OFF.

Lou

Lou wrote:


IF you are suspicious about any e-mail stating it is from E-Bay, then you
can send it to and they will check it and let you know if it
is legit or not. IF it is not legit, you'll know pretty quick. IF it IS
legit, they'll tell you that too, and what to do about it.

I've never heard anything about them checking and telling you if it is
legit. You can send a blank email to that address and get the standard
"Its not us" blurb. That pretty much says that ANY email saying its
from them - isn't.

-BM

"-exray" wrote in message
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Lou wrote:


IF you are suspicious about any e-mail stating it is from E-Bay, then you
can send it to and they will check it and let you know if
it is legit or not. IF it is not legit, you'll know pretty quick. IF it
IS legit, they'll tell you that too, and what to do about it.

I've never heard anything about them checking and telling you if it is
legit. You can send a blank email to that address and get the standard
"Its not us" blurb. That pretty much says that ANY email saying its from
them - isn't.

-BM

Reply to the sender then, see what "they" tell you! That could be an
interesting experience. No one has ever said what happens when that was
done, with the exception of those who were less fortunate enough to actually
send their info to be processed. But then we don't hear them say they gave
the info, they cry the blues, they got screwed. Write the "sender" of those
messages and report back. Maybe the system isn't perfect, but then if one is
dumb enough or let's be polite and say not educated enough in the ways of
the internet to know when they're being screwed or not, then even the catch
all response won't really matter either. BUT it will at least say - it
wasn't from E-Bay - which can then "hopefully" equate in that person's mind
as "be careful". It doesn't take much to catch those unsuspecting - off
guard. If a person is not up on the things that can happen on here,
"nothing" will save that person from being screwed - I don't care how bright
they "think" they are or how dumb they actually may be. With some people,
unfortunately, "nothing" clicks. You can sit here and preach to them all day
on what not to do, and damned if they don't do the opposite. Like a child,
you tell them not to touch the hot stove, they do it anyway, to see what
happens. People often have to learn the hard way. Instructions - simple or
complex - just don't always work with "ALL" people. No, the system is "not"
perfect. But until it is, we can only guide them to work "with" it in it's
present form - dumb as that may be. I am not aware of anyone sending a blank
email to spoof at e-bay, so I can't say what the reply would be. I think
I'll try it just for the hell of it. Have "you" tried it to back up your
statement? Just curious!

TRM.