Ebay Spam - Anyone seen this ?

[englandmj7]

So, of course I have gotten the occasional: "We are from Ebay and need you to log-in to your account through a mock e-bay homepage so we can steal your password" emails, but it seems I have been getting a new type of very convincing & advanced spam over the past few days.

Basically, I bid up to $100 for some Dior sneakers that are still on E-gay and I got two emails, (from separate people, both claiming to be the auction seller, mind you) that looked like this in one day:

People have already bid way over my maximum, so obviously this isn't a real offer (plus, the emails have been from two separate sellers for the same item )

Anyways, have you guys seen this before? Pretty crazy stuff........seems it monitors what a buyer bids on and then generates this bogus email and then they expect you to simply send them Paypal funds? I tried responding to the email addresses they list to contact them at and they both bounce...........guess you can only reply to the email itself.......?

[Fabulaz]

Yea, I think these are the reason why sellers are using private auctions so the names of the bidders aren't released.

[englandmj7]

Hmm.....maybe.

I just found it odd that I've been selling/buying on e-bay for about 5 years and have never received spam of this nature.....then I get 2 in one day.

Come to think of it, I have had at least 12 offers from Nigerian refugees wanting to transfer me large sums of moneyin the past week too. At least they are honest though, right? I am still waiting on my 1.2 million Naira from Dr. Desmond Ngongo.

[herpsky]

how much is a nigerian naira in USD?

[englandmj7]

how much is a nigerian naira in USD?

1 NGN = 0.00778816 USD

[superdupersang]

will not use ebay anymore.

cannot trust reputation no longer

[mlproject]

ebay just has "bidder 1" "bidder 2" etc on there now if you're not involved in the auction to cut back on shit like that.

i used to get a ton of fake questions to my account i don't use for ebay that didn't link to an item. i replied to one once and they sent me some random auction that wasn't mine and tried to work some money wire hustle. pretty funny.

[lestat]

i received 3 of them emails in the past 2 days... i bidded on Dior Homme Jeans lol... it was fishy when it says i was declared winner of new jeans for only 100 bucks

[down4nyhc]

Hmm.....maybe.

I just found it odd that I've been selling/buying on e-bay for about 5 years and have never received spam of this nature.....then I get 2 in one day.

Come to think of it, I have had at least 12 offers from Nigerian refugees wanting to transfer me large sums of moneyin the past week too. At least they are honest though, right? I am still waiting on my 1.2 million Naira from Dr. Desmond Ngongo.

haha. those guys sound so sincere in the email.

[LIVENUDEGIRLS]

it looks like they're hiding identities of bidders to prevent this sort of thing now.

[lilodxd]

^^ yes, but it's also easier to shill bid...