Fraudulent attempt to extort more $ for shipping

[tranquility311]

Shortly after I placed and paid for an order I received a text message asking for more money for shipping.  The senders phone number was the first clue and the web address the next.  Whilst the web page looks very real (Aust Post logo etc.) I have ignored the request to pay more.  

How can we prevent this as the elderly and unsuspecting may be dupped.  Moreso how hve my personal details been leaked from eBay to allow this attack?

From phone #: 8705 2

Your parcel: AU-2521556 will not ship from the distribution center.

Track your package: http://7fk.us/5NJ3l

[sandypebbles]

Is this for the exact product you bought?

I get emails like that almost every day, and a couple of weeks back, a Facebook friend got an email they had to pay extra shipping for a 'phone' 

Neither one of us had bought anything off a seller on eBay, or from anywhere else

The fake Australia Post emails are very common and there are a couple of warning threads about them on this forum

Unless it actually stated it was *the* item you had bought, I would think it was a coincidence you happened to get one after buying from an eBay seller 

[lyndal1838]

It seems to me that the only one who has been duped is you.  The elderly are not the only ones who get these messages and most of us are savvy enough not to fall for them.

These emails regularly land in my Inbox....and not just from Australia Post either.  I must have a dozen phones sitting in various warehouses waiting for me to pay the shipping costs, as well as many parcels with unknown contents.

Why would you decide it is ebay's fault that you have had this message.....don't you ever give your details to anyone else on the internet?

[shoppingbag*]

I ignore all email messages that don't come through the eBay messages as well. These emails are scams, I have had plenty of them, just delete them. If on the other hand it is an eBay seller asking for more postage after you have bought, then I don't pay it. It is up to the seller to work out the postage cost and if they muck up they should wear it. Bad form and unprofessional to ask for extra postage.

As for the elderly being duped, they don't fool me, mostly people half my age who should know better.