PC Mike -Tech News

If you are an eBay user, you how how important a good rating is. Scammers and identity thieves know this too and are now trying to take advantage of it by sending fake e-mail that spoofs a real message from an eBay member.
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It threatens to report the recipient for not paying for an item and has a button to click to respond. That’s the clue that this is a phishing trick: The URL goes to a non-eBay address.
But I bet a lot of eBay users respond to it. Clicking on the button then asks them to enter their eBay user name and password. If they do, it goes to the phisher and another identity theft scam has succeeded.
These scammers are serious sleazes.
I tried for 15 minutes to report it to eBay but their online security system is so cumbersome - and not very friendly to the Mac Safari browser - that I don’t think they’re very interested in getting tipped off to new scams. I gave up. If the company that pioneered online auctions can’t make it relatively simple to report fraud, what’s the point?
No wonder these scam artists are so out of control.

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