I have been receiving several spoof emails from EBay look-alikes lately asking me to update my password or personal information. It directs to a site that looks exactly like Ebay and the link even appears as if it's going to eBay, but it's not.

I would just like to remind my fellow comrades on MB shop that eBay will NEVER ask for your password or personal information and if you recieve any email that looks suspicious forward it to spoof@ebay.com so they can act accordingly and they do act very fast.

What does eBay do about it?

Sixto
95 S420
91 300SE
87 300SDL
83 300SD

I got one of those a few months ago, and I don't even have an Ebay account.

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They close the spoof site. I received a spoof and forwarded it, just for kicks I went to the site and wrote obcenities, within minutes of sending the mail the site was down. Ebay then sends an email telling that is was a spoof site.

Like this

Hello,

Thank you for contacting eBay's Trust and Safety Department about email
solicitations that are falsely made to appear to have come from eBay.
These emails, commonly referred to as "spoof" messages, are sent in an
attempt to collect sensitive personal information from recipients who
reply to the message or click on a link to a Web page requesting this
information.

The email you reported did not originate from, nor is it endorsed by,
eBay. We are very concerned about this problem and are working
diligently to address the situation. We have investigated the source of
this email and have taken appropriate action. You may rest assured that
your account standing has not changed and that your listings have not
been affected.

We advise you to be very cautious of email messages that ask you to
submit information such as your credit card number or your email
password. eBay will never ask you for sensitive personal information
such as passwords, bank account or credit card numbers, Personal
Identification Numbers (PINs), or Social Security numbers in an email
itself. If you ever need to provide information to eBay please open a
new Web browser, type www.ebay.com, and click on the "site map" link
located at the top the page to access the eBay page you need.

If you have any doubt about whether an email message is from eBay,
please forward it immediately to spoof@ebay.com and do not respond to it or click on any of the links in the email message. Please do not change
the subject line or forward the email as an attachment.

How does eBay close the site? Within minutes at that. Wouldn't RAIA (RIAI?) love to be able to do that. I've reported spoof mail and gotten a response from eBay but I never thought to check on the sender after reporting.

Sixto
95 S420
91 300SE
87 300SDL
83 300SD

I don't know but they do, Maybe they DNS it until the ISP can close it.