Email from ebay scam

[Ean Austral]

Gday All,

I received an email from ebay saying I had a international transaction of $112 processed from 29 july and it would be shown on my paypal account, it had a link saying something like the payment hasn't been processed because my C/card details are incorrect.

Normally I would ignore this, but about 2 months ago I did get a different card so thought maybe but would ring paypal and see whats going on.

Paypal tell me its a scam where they get you to fill in your card details and email them, and this is what thay are after.

Another scam that is doing the rounds by the looks of it.

Cheers Ean

[S3ute]

Paypal tell me its a scam where they get you to fill in your card details and email them, and this is what thay are after.

Another scam that is doing the rounds by the looks of it.

Hello from Brisbane.

Thanks for the update.

This is a variant of quite an old scam actually - I had received much the same a few times over the past few years. After checking the first out with eBay via the contact details on the real eBay website I now just report them to directly to their fraud tracing department.

You typically get an email message, supposedly from eBay, telling you that your account has been billed for some item and the card number attached to your PayPal account hasn't worked. Can you send the correct card details to verify it......... If you happen to check the details of the "transaction" that is listed it usually suggests that the mysterious item (e.g. ballet shoes) was purchased by "Mrs X" who happens to live in a nearby suburb with a surname that you can find in the phone book if you happen to check.

Needless to say, the real "Mrs X" has never heard of the item either.....

Cheers,

[PhilipA]

I have had a couple of novel ones recently.
The old ones must now not be so effective.
First was a letter a couple of weeks ago from a Lawyer in Madrid, saying that one of his clients had died without decendents and seeing I had the same name he would arrange for a million or so to be bequeathed to me and he would take 45%. English was pretty good and looked convincing if you were gullible and/or greedy.
Second was ten minutes ago. Indian calling saying that someone at my address had an accident in the last year. I said not here. She persisted and said "are you sure you haven't had just a minor accident ? You may be due for compensation" I guess the next line is to give her your bank account details so she can put the money in. She was persistent and rang back after we hung up on her.

Regards Philip A