eBay scam

[pc_noob]

I just received the following email with high priority;

eBay Verification Request - ID CODE: 00915731 It has come to our attention that your eBay billing information are out of date. This require you to update billing information as soon as possible. This billing update is also a new eBay security statement which goes according to the established norms on the User Agreement to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. Please update your records on or before November 20, 2005. A failure to update your records may result on a suspension of your account. To update your eBay records click on the following link: http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayIS...n&ssPageName=h If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please contact eBay by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us". This new security statement will helps us continue to offer eBay as a secure and cost-effective service. We appreciate your cooperation and assistance. Sincerely, The eBay Team

but the link takes me to the following page;
http://www.footballnovascotia.ca/modules/eBay/


This is a scam right?

[Cricket]

Yes, it's a scam.

Cricket

[David M]

Don't even click on the link to respond. It confirms your email address is valid and the site cold have spyware, virus etc.

[pc_noob]

I already have..

[mairving]

A tip is never to login to anything from a link that was sent to you in an email. It's pretty easy to make the link look like it is from Ebay. I get about 10-20 of these for various email accounts at work along with the Paypal scams.

[blue60007]

Good thing you asked first. eBay'll never ask for your account info in that fasion, if for whatever reason they needed it again , you'd have to go their site and fill it in there.

[Punked Out Comp]

This billing update is also a new eBay security statement which goes according to the established norms on the User Agreement to reduce the instance of fraud on our website.

How ironic

This thing is fraught with bad spelling and grammar.

[Marke522]

You might want to change your password and maybe even your user id if you did anything on that other site.

That happened to me once a few years ago, I clicked and typed in all they asked for to "update" my account. Then a few months later someone tried to spend $999.00 from my PayPal account. I was in front of the computer when it happened so I got ahold of them and stopped it, but it was a pretty scary 3 days until the money was back in my account.

The detectives wouldn't investigate anything mainly because it was only attempted theft, and also because other people have lost 10's of thousands of dollars.

It's called phishing, the criminals throw out a thousand emails with bait, and wait to see if anyone bites.

[jayb1234]

Take a look at the full headers on that e-mail. Judging by the poor grammar and syntax, it's probably from another country. Here is a page telling you how to report it to the feds. And if you hit home on that page you can find more info about how to recognize phishing scams.