Fraudulent emails - anyone receiving these?

[licorice.allsorts]

Is anyone else experiencing this..... 

I have items for sale currently and I have been receiving emails from "potential customers" asking me questions about postage of items etc.  The questions come to an email account of mine that is not connected to my ebay account and the sender's email address is eBay <noreply@ebai.com>.   Everything about the email looks identical to questions I receive from geniune ebayers.  I haven't responded (and won't) as alarm bells rang when the emails came to a different email account and the questions were abit strange (eg. asking how much postage would cost to Perth when all my items are sent in pre-paid satchels).   I am not sure what happens if you hit the Respond button and I am not going to find out!! 

Does ebay follow these sorts of things up like the banks and the ATO?

[lyndal1838]

Just forward the suspect emails to spoof@ebay.com  or spoof@paypal.com if they are supposed to originate from paypal.

They will confirm whether they are indeed fakes and hopefully be able to track them down.

[haolove13]

If they do not come up as an unanswered question on your listings then they are fakes.

you can send them to spoof@ebay.com.au but if they are on a paypal account it is a guaranteed fake.

And do not click on this link in here as this is just the way auto complete makes dangerous links.

[ajarnjenny]

Thank you for that!. Not on ebay au, but on ebay.com, I get these. I know  that they are not trying to scam me, my items are only dollars. I knew that they were fake, but could not work out why. Are they after my details?

[lyndal1838]

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@ajarnjenny wrote:

 Are they after my details?

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Probably.  It is not so much the details that they will get from that one email being answered, but it gives them a valid email address to spam you forever and a day.

If you answer spam emails sent to your usual ebay email address then that has far more serious implications...they can end up with real names, valid email addresses, possibly phone numbers.  There is far more potential for having your account hacked.

[terry4sale2012]

I am getting them too from the same address, questions about postage etc, BUT I am not selling anything at the moment that is why I thought mmm hang on, something is strange.

[haolove13]

If they do not show up in the system you have been spammed.

DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT REPLYING TO THEM AS YOU WILL BE SPAMMED FOREVER

AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF IDENTITY THEFT SO GET RID OF THEM IMMEDIATELY>

And fraud from a compromised computer can cost you a fortune.

[crowsman53]

This is The Latest one I have received. The Item Number was linked So I deleated the link before posting it here. The item number was the link and is an Item of mine but only had one bid and it I didn't click on the link as it did not mention my name so just be careful. eBay Community Member is everyone of us..

Dear eBay Community Member,
A previously entered bid on your item has been retracted or cancelled. You can view the retraction/cancellation and the reason provided by selecting the (bid history) link from the individual item page. As a result of this retraction/cancellation, there is a possibility that the high bid amount and the current high bidder have changed. You can always view the current status of any item by going to the individual item page. (Be sure to refresh or reload the page to view the most up-to-date information.)
Regards,
eBay

Paddy

[haolove13]

A professional fraudster can obtain enough details to cost you , everyone on your computer and everyone you have ever spoken to a lot of money and compromise you for a long time.
If there are no details on there or on your selling lists etc just get rid of them.

A friend of mine once responded to a Nigerian scam to "tell them off" and it cost him two computers and a complete new identity to get away from the damage.
They are cleverer than the average computer nerd so just avoid it.

You must treat every spammer like a complete mastermind and avoid them completely.

" I know that they are not trying to scam me, my items are only dollars."

That is not the truth, every scammer does it to make money and you are foolish if you think you can beat them.