new phising scam on eBay

by Matt Warmack on June 24, 2008

So I’m in the need for an 11’ Raft a few days ago – isn’t everyone?  So I bid on this large raft and I won the bid.  The second I get an official eBay message saying you have won and now please pay – I also got the following email:  (look at picture below on how real it was including the items photo!  It wasn’t pixilated until I converted it)

 

eBay scam email

I’m the seller of the item that you’ve recently bided through the eBay system. Item name: SportsStuff FunStation Inflatable Private Island, Item number: (320264393411) I`ve just been contacted by the eBay staff who informed me that due to some reasons my paypal account is limited and I can’t accept paypal payments, please reply me asap at alexnrthbrnswck@aol.com so we can close this deal without paypal, sorry for this confusion.

Thank you!

After a little research I noticed we have two emails here – one from the legitimate seller and one from the email address above – which is a scam.  It looked very official and took a second to tell it was fake.  Watch out on eBay – it’s full of scammers.  I’ve had other things happen to me on eBay… how about you?

-Matt Warmack

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