Nothing is really safe these days. You may now start to get IM from the girls. If anyone knows how to really fix this, I would like to know.
In the mean time, we may have to educate our children as well as protect them.
What do you mean "impossible to contact eBay"? Did you use the "report this item" link at the bottom of the eBay listing page? No need to email them at all.
I've found they act pretty swiftly on this kind of stuff.
And what would an eBay listing have to do with IMs?
mikesmowers wrote:Kinda dumb What's IM's? Mike
Instant Message
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_message
Has nothing to do with the topic, which in turn has basically nothing to do with trains.
The original post also has nothing to do with Phishing.
What -- everybody just wants to get their eBay / Phishing / decline of western civilization posts in, no matter the topic of the thread?
I should have explained myself better. Phishers in Ebay place items like nude calendars into odd catagorys like model rail road hoping that some one will look at it. As someone suggested to click the "report this auction" link, you have to open the auction to get to this link.
I wanted to warn anyone to re-consider opening the auction if you are suddenly asked to provide your id name and password. This is not meant to get off topic or to trash ebay. Just my friendly public service announcement.... lol
Why are you upset and want to report it? dont look at it if you dont like naked women pictures
You are making more attention paid to it by trolling the internet and posting about it.
Ebay is a fun place to surf, you just need to know where the sharks are and how they disquise themselves. lol
I think this is a very useful warning that all of us who use eBay need to pay particular attention to. I saw something similar on the N-scale auction listing a few months ago.
So what’s so serious about it? Well, if you want to report it (using ’report this item’) , you need an auction number. You can’t get an auction number until you click into the auction. Well, since the auction is bogus, once you click on it you are redirected to a non-eBay site that is doctored up to look just like the eBay sign in page. Once you sign in - BINGO! Your ID and password gets lifted.
It’s a very clever and downright diabolical phishing scheme because they actually use eBay itself to lure you in - not a bogus email massage like usual. The people at eBay can’t seem to stop this because it keeps coming back, and in my opinion it represents a grave breach in the integrity of their site.
I think many missed the point. It would seem that the original poster was already in eBay browsing HO stuff. Thus, it was not a Phish. Ergo, scrolling to the bottom of the page to the "Report This Item" link would have posed no danger.
From the information shared by the original poster, I don't think this was a bogus auction ... just an auction that didn't belong in the HO trains category.
In any case, it appears the main reason for the post was to complain about soulless corporations. To which everyone piled on with urban legends and generalized eBay anxiety.
I've seen those ads too. they can be annoying.... But this topic has cleared up for me that these randomly go into model rr section, and that someone is not directly trying to scam us.
Dave