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03-06-2010, 02:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | | New Ebay security?
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I just attempted to log into my Ebay account last night and was prompted with an array of security information. Some of what they're asking, I do not ever remember giving nor am I entirely keen on giving it now. Why does Ebay need my Social Security Number? 
Anyone else been prompted with this? |
03-06-2010, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | It's a trap! Seriously! |
03-06-2010, 03:58 PM
| | | | Yep, watch out you probably have something bad going on. |
03-06-2010, 04:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko  It's a trap! Seriously! | Please don't tell me you received an email and followed that link into Ebay? They tried it with me. Email Ebay immediately!!!
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03-06-2010, 04:07 PM
| | | | If you gave them your SSN and DOB I would call LifeLock next. Seriously. |
03-06-2010, 06:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | | I haven't entered anything. I haven't clicked on any link to arrive at the page other than "My Ebay" from the ebay page.
What exactly, and how, could this be happening? |
03-06-2010, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by burk48237 Please don't tell me you received an email and followed that link into Ebay? They tried it with me. Email Ebay immediately!!! | Nope, didn't get the phish but I wouldn't have clicked on it if I had.
I DID just get en email from "UPS". They couldn't deliver a package and wanted me to download a zip file and complete a form
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03-06-2010, 06:11 PM
|  | I make metal look good. | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Baxley, GA | | | I just checked my account. No extra features. No phishing for me either.
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03-06-2010, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | | I just checked on a different PC, didn't happen there. It tries the phishing regardless of the account trying to be logged into and regardless of the browser. Interesting. |
03-06-2010, 06:28 PM
| | I make metal look good. | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Baxley, GA | | | You must have gotten a mod hack on your browsers, or some sort of piggyback that acts like a proxy.
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03-06-2010, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Bones You must have gotten a mod hack on your browsers, or some sort of piggyback that acts like a proxy. | They have been feeling a bit sluggish lately. hrm |
03-06-2010, 07:09 PM
| | | | Try Spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes. Bet you find some interesting things. |
03-06-2010, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RWP Try Spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes. Bet you find some interesting things. | Run all 3 of them regularly, they really seem to find much. Never had a virus, always had AVG updated.
This is the weirdest thing that's happened since I built this machine back in 04.  |
03-07-2010, 01:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | | ebay does not need that information. its for real, not safe.
ive been buying and selling for a few years, never entered that kind of stuff. |
03-07-2010, 07:12 AM
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03-07-2010, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | | Turns out that whatever it was had me connecting through a proxy. Sneaky. |
03-08-2010, 04:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko I DID just get en email from "UPS". They couldn't deliver a package and wanted me to download a zip file and complete a form | I keep getting those at work. Our email servers keep flagging them as containing a virus so I've ignored them. Odd that they're using UPS as a carrier.... |
03-08-2010, 04:51 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by coreyfyfe I keep getting those at work. Our email servers keep flagging them as containing a virus so I've ignored them. Odd that they're using UPS as a carrier.... |
That's a well-known scam that has been in the News and is flagged up everywhere on the net as a classic phishing scam!! http://www.scambusters.org/upsscam.html
I think that the problem talked about in this thread sounds like a classic Trojan.....?
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03-08-2010, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | | Well, it's doing it again. I have a laptop coming in this week and building a desktop soon. I'll just not do anything important here I suppose. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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