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ALERT: Watch out for the "Ask Seller A Question" part.....(see quote below)

do not respond to this. its a link that takes you to a spoofed ebay login page where this fraudster tries to get you to enter your ebay user ID & Password. Its the latest the ebay ripoff scheme phishing attempt. BEWARE!

the auction itself seems legit however.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Hello, My name is Robert Wall. I am interested in your item. The problem is that I am a very confused as I've seen another item very similar to yours. Please, have a look: hxxp://218.248.244.5/cgi.ebay.com/cgi-bin/ebayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&motors.listings.ebay.com/Cars-Trucks_W0QQa10239ZQ2d24QQa10244ZQ2d24QQa38v1yZQQa38v2yZQQa39ZQ2d24QQa39705ZQ2d24QQa [/QUOTE]
 
oooooooops, Stupid me. I went to that page before I read the last post. What should I be aware of and looking for?
 
dont put your ebay user id and/or password in there (its a spoofed page)

If you did, you might want to go and change your ebay password really quick like.
 
WidespreadPanic said:
ALERT: Watch out for the "Ask Seller A Question" part.....(see quote below)

do not respond to this. its a link that takes you to a spoofed ebay login page where this fraudster tries to get you to enter your ebay user ID & Password. Its the latest the ebay ripoff scheme phishing attempt. BEWARE!

the auction itself seems legit however.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Hello, My name is Robert Wall. I am interested in your item. The problem is that I am a very confused as I've seen another item very similar to yours. Please, have a look: hxxp://218.248.244.5/cgi.ebay.com/cgi-bin/ebayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&motors.listings.ebay.com/Cars-Trucks_W0QQa10239ZQ2d24QQa10244ZQ2d24QQa38v1yZQQa38v2yZQQa39ZQ2d24QQa39705ZQ2d24QQa
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[/QUOTE]

I thought that sounded kinda Nigerian myself...
 
WidespreadPanic said:
ALERT: Watch out for the "Ask Seller A Question" part.....(see quote below)

do not respond to this. its a link that takes you to a spoofed ebay login page where this fraudster tries to get you to enter your ebay user ID & Password. Its the latest the ebay ripoff scheme phishing attempt. BEWARE!
Click to expand...

Looks like the correct eBay (https) login page to me... the one you see any time you ask a seller a question, etc.
 
I'm referring to the link that "Robert Wall" provides in his "ask the seller a question" that was posted into the auction.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] hxxp://218.248.244.5/cgi.ebay.com/cgi-bin/ebayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&motors.listings.ebay.com/Cars-Trucks_W0QQa10239ZQ2d24QQa10244ZQ2d24QQa38v1yZQQa38v2yZQQa39ZQ2d24QQa39705ZQ2d24QQa[/QUOTE]

notice the IP address that precedes the authenic ebay address....the 218.248.244.5

here's the "Who Is" report from Network Solutions, loks like a fraudster in Australia

WHOIS Record For
218.248.244.5
Record Type: IP Address


OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgID: APNIC
Address: PO Box 2131
City: Milton
StateProv: QLD
PostalCode: 4064
Country: AU

ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net

NetRange: 218.0.0.0 - 218.255.255.255
CIDR: 218.0.0.0/8
NetName: APNIC4
NetHandle: NET-218-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to APNIC
NameServer: NS1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS4.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS-SEC.RIPE.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or https://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment: help, refer to https://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse
Comment:
RegDate: 2000-12-07
Updated: 2005-05-20

OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3100
OrgTechEmail: search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net
 
I just asked a question, "Where and when can the car be seen?" Let's see what the answer is. There is a lot of bidding on it.
 
the issue here is not with the seller. Its this Robert Wall fella thats trying to get people to plug into that link in his question, thereby prompting the phony ebay log in page where he captures your user id & password.

paste that phony ebay address into your browser and see what happens

its quite diabolical - one of the better phishing scams I have seen

just so you know where I am coming from, I have been in Fraud detection for a major credit card company for the last 15 years. I know fraud when I see it.
 
And I think we just saw that same scheme used on another car recently. Exact same line "Hi my name is xxxxxxx, and I'm interested in the car but I'm confused because..."etc etc.
 
Thank you for the clarification. I misunderstood your original post to mean the seller was a problem.
 
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