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*sigh* there are some mean people out there.
Basically, got an email from a potential buyer enquiring about an item I had on Amazon Marketplace recently (doesn't mention the item by name), and a link asking me to check whether the item was still for sale. The link says an official-looking URL with amazon.com in it, but actually goes to a website called "Amazongrace.com", with a proper-looking log-in form.
What someone has done is save the webpage at Amazon.com, changed the form so that it sends to their own page (which sends them your log-in details), and it looks very official. Please, please, please don't fall for this. If the site name isn't amazon.com, or whatever, then it's not real. The Email was from [email protected], here it is in full:
"Hello,
I wanna ask you if you still have this item for sale,sorry for bothering you ,but i think is a error in this link ,send me an reply after you able to sell the product. !
Please let me know soon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ tg/browse/-/468294/202-8935032-5724656
Thank you.
John Terry."
Then they've used a simple javascript trick to launch a different site to the one in the link. I hate these people. It works on any site with a log-in form, so Amazon, Tesco, Hotmail, even poor old SR are at risk, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it because it's so simple to do.
Can someone put that in simple words for Crossbob please, thanks.
Basically, got an email from a potential buyer enquiring about an item I had on Amazon Marketplace recently (doesn't mention the item by name), and a link asking me to check whether the item was still for sale. The link says an official-looking URL with amazon.com in it, but actually goes to a website called "Amazongrace.com", with a proper-looking log-in form.
What someone has done is save the webpage at Amazon.com, changed the form so that it sends to their own page (which sends them your log-in details), and it looks very official. Please, please, please don't fall for this. If the site name isn't amazon.com, or whatever, then it's not real. The Email was from [email protected], here it is in full:
"Hello,
I wanna ask you if you still have this item for sale,sorry for bothering you ,but i think is a error in this link ,send me an reply after you able to sell the product. !
Please let me know soon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ tg/browse/-/468294/202-8935032-5724656
Thank you.
John Terry."
Then they've used a simple javascript trick to launch a different site to the one in the link. I hate these people. It works on any site with a log-in form, so Amazon, Tesco, Hotmail, even poor old SR are at risk, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it because it's so simple to do.
Can someone put that in simple words for Crossbob please, thanks.
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*sigh* there are some mean people out there.
Basically, got an email from a potential buyer enquiring about an item I had on Amazon Marketplace recently (doesn't mention the item by name), and a link asking me to check whether the item was still for sale. The link says an official-looking URL with amazon.com in it, but actually goes to a website called "Amazongrace.com", with a proper-looking log-in form.
What someone has done is save the webpage at Amazon.com, changed the form so that it sends to their own page (which sends them your log-in details), and it looks very official. Please, please, please don't fall for this. If the site name isn't amazon.com, or whatever, then it's not real. The Email was from [email protected], here it is in full:
"Hello,
I wanna ask you if you still have this item for sale,sorry for bothering you ,but i think is a error in this link ,send me an reply after you able to sell the product. !
Please let me know soon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ tg/browse/-/468294/202-8935032-5724656
Thank you.
John Terry."
Then they've used a simple javascript trick to launch a different site to the one in the link. I hate these people. It works on any site with a log-in form, so Amazon, Tesco, Hotmail, even poor old SR are at risk, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it because it's so simple to do.
Can someone put that in simple words for Crossbob please, thanks.
Basically, got an email from a potential buyer enquiring about an item I had on Amazon Marketplace recently (doesn't mention the item by name), and a link asking me to check whether the item was still for sale. The link says an official-looking URL with amazon.com in it, but actually goes to a website called "Amazongrace.com", with a proper-looking log-in form.
What someone has done is save the webpage at Amazon.com, changed the form so that it sends to their own page (which sends them your log-in details), and it looks very official. Please, please, please don't fall for this. If the site name isn't amazon.com, or whatever, then it's not real. The Email was from [email protected], here it is in full:
"Hello,
I wanna ask you if you still have this item for sale,sorry for bothering you ,but i think is a error in this link ,send me an reply after you able to sell the product. !
Please let me know soon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ tg/browse/-/468294/202-8935032-5724656
Thank you.
John Terry."
Then they've used a simple javascript trick to launch a different site to the one in the link. I hate these people. It works on any site with a log-in form, so Amazon, Tesco, Hotmail, even poor old SR are at risk, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it because it's so simple to do.
Can someone put that in simple words for Crossbob please, thanks.
Bob, don't click on dodgy links or you won't get fed for a week.
I never trusted JT. He always looked like a crim.
I never trusted JT. He always looked like a crim.
Hah hah!! This forum loves CrossBob really!!
I remember being told about those sort of scams by my tutor at Uni. Must admit I never check URLs as often as I should though.
Maybe John Terry is looking to the future after his football career....
What makes me laugh is the people that make these scams, they may have a grain of intelligence but their spelling/grammar is "special needs" at best.
Hey Everyone, whats the likelyhood that this is an Ebay scam?
"Hi. Thanks for bidding on and winning my auction. I've had to go to Lancashire as my mum has a had a major fall and is in hospital. As a result there will be a delay in despatching the item. I'm sorry about this and the inconvenience caused and I'd obviously much rather this hadn't happened. However, that's life as they say. I'll do my best to despatch within the next week but please accept my sincere apologies in the meantime. Regards. Anne."
I was thinking that the amount of time it took to send that email they could have sent the thing anyways.
"Hi. Thanks for bidding on and winning my auction. I've had to go to Lancashire as my mum has a had a major fall and is in hospital. As a result there will be a delay in despatching the item. I'm sorry about this and the inconvenience caused and I'd obviously much rather this hadn't happened. However, that's life as they say. I'll do my best to despatch within the next week but please accept my sincere apologies in the meantime. Regards. Anne."
I was thinking that the amount of time it took to send that email they could have sent the thing anyways.
Did you order a Blue Peter badge from ebay, Wardy?
Probably, seeing as you wanted £20 for one....
Yeah about £13 in the end or something. The shield one with the ship on it.
Might still win one if they like my story, in which case i could sell that one!
Might still win one if they like my story, in which case i could sell that one!
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