posted 10-24-2005 04:18 AM               

There's an increase of messages coming from ebay through their "contact member" form asking :

"I want to buy this or that, please contact me at mosescaine@xxxxxxx as I have problems with my other email account"
(the ebay account holder has contaced me afterwards that she hasn't sent that email - looks like somebody hijacked her account which I believe her)
or
"I want to buy your item (he or she doesn't mention what !), please tell me your last price"

Not sure what kind of scam this is, but most likely some people are trying to get your email address once you reply to them and either use it for spam or do other bad things with it.

I highly recommend not replying to such strange sounding emails therefore !
And I'm not working for ebay >ROFL> when I tell not to agree on a business they suggest outside ebay. (unless you know the sender :-) )

Happy trading

posted 10-24-2005 07:31 AM               

in addition to this morning's warning - please see further information about the possible ebay scam here : http://www.isitreal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=609&Itemid=1

BEWARE !!!

posted 10-24-2005 08:30 AM               

I'm sure if you click on the "reply now" link in the message it will send you to a fake eBay login page that will of course send your login and password to the author of the scam.

posted 10-24-2005 10:07 AM            

Right mouse button click on the web link usually exposes the scam web address - which looks nothing like the official site.

But,if in doubt - DON'T OPEN IT