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NBC10.com:
For people who use eBay, the crooks have found a new way to try to con them out of their password and account information.
Most eBay users are probably familiar with phishing scams. Phishing is when an e-mail that looks like it is from a company like eBay asks the user for account information. But there is a new twist on the old scam.Robert Knowlton said he loves eBay. He bought something on it just the other day."I purchased a pair of slippers from a very reputable dealer on eBay," Knowlton said.
Soon after he bought the slippers, Knowlton got an e-mail that looked like it was from the company where he bought the slippers."What they want me to do is log in with my member log in and my password," Knowlton said."The next thing they do is change your password to theirs, your addresses to theirs and then they can sell things on eBay pretending to be you," said George Graves, an eBay education specialist.
"That gives them access to everything in my account -- my credit cards, my bank account," Knowlton said.
This latest phishing scam is just a new wrinkle on an old con, experts said.
Most eBay users are probably familiar with phishing scams. Phishing is when an e-mail that looks like it is from a company like eBay asks the user for account information. But there is a new twist on the old scam.Robert Knowlton said he loves eBay. He bought something on it just the other day."I purchased a pair of slippers from a very reputable dealer on eBay," Knowlton said.
Soon after he bought the slippers, Knowlton got an e-mail that looked like it was from the company where he bought the slippers."What they want me to do is log in with my member log in and my password," Knowlton said."The next thing they do is change your password to theirs, your addresses to theirs and then they can sell things on eBay pretending to be you," said George Graves, an eBay education specialist.
"That gives them access to everything in my account -- my credit cards, my bank account," Knowlton said.
This latest phishing scam is just a new wrinkle on an old con, experts said.
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