I woke up this morning to an email from "eBay Support" with the following text:

Dear valued eBay member:

It has come to our attention that your eBay billing informations are out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records by April 5th.

Once you have updated your account records your eBay session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future
problems.

To update your eBay records click here:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate

eBay Update team
http://www.ebay.com

I didn’t think it was anything malicious therefore I followed the URL to the eBay login page. The URL is "http://www.beibay.com/Login.html". I didn’t notice that till I entered my username and password and submitted the form! You know what that means? My username and password is now in the hands of those crooks behind this spoof eBay web site!

Once I reached the eBay form, I knew it was scam right away. First of all, there navigation buttons on top look odd. Secondly, the URL is wrong… what a dead giveaway! Thirdly, the form is asking for way too much information on 1 page that I’ve ever seen on eBay. Lastly, there is no "lock" icon on the browser that indicates this is a secure page.

Ok… I’ve been conned now what do I do?

Thank goodness for eBay’s spoof alert email address at "spo...@ebay.com". You could read about the tutorial on eBay!

I went to change my eBay password and other auction related services that used that password to protect myself. What a way to start my day. Its sad that there are crooks like that trying to rip us off of our money. That’s just a fact of life. Some people would rather cheat you of your money rather than putting a day of honest work.

I’ve received similar spoof emails for my Pay Pal account. You have to be vigilant about these scam artists out there. This is my 2nd eBay scam attempt at me in 2 months! The other one was a phone call asking me to invest thousands of dollars in a coaching program.

Till then, happy and SAFE trading everyone!

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