Spoof Email

[tweetystwades]

I got 2 Spoof emails today, and ebay claims they are not from them.  It looked like the one I got previously, so I clicked on a link.  1 was seller update, and the other was update to user agreement.

It was from:   eBay eBay@reply1.ebay.com.

Had to change all my passwords : ( 

[copper.boom]

Tweety - make sure you forward the messages to spoof@ebay.com

Sorry to hear that happened. 

[d-k_treasures]

The seller update one isn't a spoof email, although I wish it was.

It's typical ebay to NOT send some of these thru messages, but direct to your ebay email address. I'm sure it's because they KNOW how poor their own message system is.

[megadestroyers]

Would guess the user agreement email isn't either, since posts concerning both the update and agreement were put on the announcement board just today!!

Guess the triumvirate that runs the weakly noise session was fearful of not having anything to answer for an hour??

Getting moist in here.

[copper.boom]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

The seller update one isn't a spoof email, although I wish it was.

It's typical ebay to NOT send some of these thru messages, but direct to your ebay email address. I'm sure it's because they KNOW how poor their own message system is.

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I didn't even get an e-mail about the updates yet. If I didn't looked at the board this morning I never would have had the chance to post questions for blues in the forum today... you know, since they said they would post in the update forum for one day only.

[loveyourimagination49]

I didn't receive it either, just saw it late afternoon, when I got off of work. 🤔

[copper.boom]

IIRC last update I got e-mail day after release.

[loveyourimagination49]

Usually know about when updates are coming. This Summer update is new to me. Always been Spring and Fall.

[18704d]

"Had to change all my passwords"

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I'd first run an effective anti-malware program like MalwareBytes (free)

and Then

change the passwords.

fwiw,

Lynn

[a_c_green]

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@tweetystwades wrote:

It was from:   eBay eBay@reply1.ebay.com.

Had to change all my passwords : ( 

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Why? It really was from eBay. Domains are read from right to left, starting with the ".com" extension and separating by periods. In this example, it came from ebay.com, and "reply1" was their own local subdivision under ebay.com. The only thing to keep in mind would be to roll over the link and pause there, at which point your browser will generate a little popup showing the actual address to which you'll be taken when you click on the link. If you see an actual address ending in either "@ebay.com" or "@[something.]ebay.com" you're clear to proceed.

It will not surprise me if "spoof@ebay.com" tells you it was a fake anyway...  (I got the same message today.)