eBay New Unpaid Item Message from Martin1967 response required

The problem with these Phishing emails is that they are realistic and it's hard to sometimes stop and think that they aren't for real. I just caught my wife about to click the link on this email thinking that it was genuine!

So, once more, the indicators that it's a fake:

1 - It's sent to 'undisclosed recipients' - not to my ebay registered email address.

2 - The greating is 'Dear member' - it should greet me by name (ebay always will greet by name).

3 - Neither of us has bought anything through Ebay recently...

4 - If you put the mouse over a link, the destination URL is http://214352399:8080/signin.ebay.co.uk_ebay-online.html. Look carefully at the part of the URL from the http:// until the next / - that's the website name. In this case that's 214352399:8080, which isn't a valid URL (that I know of!), let alone Ebay. Even if it did say http://www.ebay.com/ then that's no guarantee it's genuine - it could just be masked.

If you receive such an email and want to check that you really don't have a dispute to deal with, don't click the link on the email! Instead, open up your internet browser window, type in the website URL (www.ebay.com) and sign on and check your messages from there.

Here's the content of the email:

eBay New Unpaid Item Message from Martin1967 response required

Dear member,

eBay member Martin Adolf has left you a message regarding item #220066799480

View the dispute thread to respond.

Regards,

eBay Inc.

Copyright © 1995-2008 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

eBay official time - Page last updated: May-19-04 11:57:05 PDT