Yet another dumb update my account info with a bank I've never heard of e-mail!

[Delirious]

http://www.skibob.co.uk/ibank.barclays.co.uk/bank.barclays.co.uk/olb/p/LoginMember.do/index.htm
That is the link I am sent to when I click the link...
http://www.barclays.co.uk/cgi-bin/accountupdate/1,00,102.html That is what the link shows

This is what the pathetic e-mail looks like.

I recieved one from Chase bank as well, called their number they provided...out of service number!!

I'm sorry, but either we got some really dumb bank people sending us e-mails, or more people are trying to get a scam.

Also, did you notice it was from the U.K.? The state of Ohio is not in the U.K.!

 

[DuckRacer]

It has scam written all over it.

 

[DQuaN]

Yup. But Barclays is a major UK bank.

 

[Kylehnat]

These annoy me to no end. I recently got one from "VISA" stating that my account had been comprimised, and if I didn't send them my account number, social security number, and bank account numbers, they would not be responsible for any money lost by this security breach. The message itself had several typos, and was written in bold font. I wanted to e-mail those scammers back and rip into them for not even being the least bit convincing. If you're going to commit fraud, at least make a decent effort of it.

 

[Touring Mars]

It's called Phishing (or something like that), and I get loads of them.

Some are very good indeed, and even have weblinks that look genuine, but actually lead elsewhere.

Simple rule, every company you have had financial dealings with will never ask for your details via an email, so bin them immediately. If you accidentally bin something genuine, they will contact you by phone.

 

[Swift]

The same thing comes from ebay/paypal scammers all the time.

 

[guska]

a general rule for all unwanted spam, if you haven't signed up for it (like an adult content subscription service - your screwed with them), then DO NOT click the unsubscribe or remove me link, because if you do, they then know your email address is valid, and your done!

 

[MistaX]

I've gotten ones from banks I have nothing to do with, and I've been getting countless "Your Ebay Account is Insecure" mails.

 

[Slicks]

I've fallen for an Ebay phishing thingy before. However, I caught it just after I had "signed in", and went and changed my real account.

 

[Rogue Ssv]

Scammers. [BLEEP] them.

 

[Acid X]

Scammers suck dude. E-mail sucks too. Yay for text messaging i guess... Bah. I'm not even safe with Gmail!

 

[Omnis]

Gmail does a pretty decent job with spam filtering, though. As a general rule of thumb, NEVER click on or open things that don't address you by your full name.

Dear Sir or Madam, = scam

Dear Delirious J. Deliridinkle, = plausibly for real.

Just be safe and use heavy discretion. I usually don't follow any email links no matter where they're from. I'll go to paypal or ebay's main site and find what I need from there.

 

[exigeracer]

I was on the https part of eBay, trying to change my account's email, so the notifitcations would be sent to a different e-address, and they asked me for my credit card number for "security reasons." I said f- it, logged off. It was the real eBay and everything. Why the hell do they need my credit card number to change my email adress?!!?!?

 

[GT4_Rule]

I've been getting lots of emails that says "please help me" or "business partnership please" or "i need business partner/fund" stuff...it annoys me. And it doesn't even look legitimate. The "i"s are all undercase. Grammers are wrong too.

 

[Master_Yoda]

a general rule for all unwanted spam, if you haven't signed up for it (like an adult content subscription service - your screwed with them), then DO NOT click the unsubscribe or remove me link, because if you do, they then know your email address is valid, and your done!

I friend of mine showed me his inbox, it had over 2500 mesages from porno sites.... it was at school which made it 1000000 times funnier.

 

[a6m5]

I usually laugh at those silly scams, but I did almost fall for one, one time. It was an eBay scam, but instead of asking for a credit card information, it looked like a "Question for seller". Some guy's asking about some quad on eBay that's not mine. Click to reply and it comes to the eBay log-in screen. Just before I signed in, I looked at the address bar, it wasn't eBay.com.

 

[GT4_Rule]

I usually laugh at those silly scams, but I did almost fall for one, one time. It was an eBay scam, but instead of asking for a credit card information, it looked like a "Question for seller". Some guy's asking about some quad on eBay that's not mine. Click to reply and it comes to the eBay log-in screen. Just before I signed in, I looked at the address bar, it wasn't eBay.com.

Wow. Close call...

I think I got a worm or virus of some sort from one of those fake emails. But that was a long time ago.

 

[Swift]

I was on the https part of eBay, trying to change my account's email, so the notifitcations would be sent to a different e-address, and they asked me for my credit card number for "security reasons." I said f- it, logged off. It was the real eBay and everything. Why the hell do they need my credit card number to change my email adress?!!?!?

It wasn't ebay. I changed mine yesterday and didn't need any credit info. It was a site designed to look exactly like ebay to get your credit card.

 

[Rogue Ssv]

Grammers are wrong too.

Look who's talking!
Just playin'...
Well I never get any scams, but I do get a lot of spam. But both my dad and I were very surprised to know that my mom gets over 500 junk mails a week! !
I get an average of around 10.

 

[exigeracer]

It wasn't ebay. I changed mine yesterday and didn't need any credit info. It was a site designed to look exactly like ebay to get your credit card.

So you're saying when I typed in www.ebay.com, I was looking at a few dozen fake auctions, then logged in to my account without problems, checked the status of some recent auctions, that were coincidentally the same as ones that I had participated in the past, all fake, then tried to change the e-mail adress, infuriated with how they were trying to get my credit card info, realising that it could somehow be a scam, start over, have the same problem, check around to make sure it wasn't a scam, and somehow it was? All withing https://www.ebay.com/etcetcetc

I do not fall for these kinds of things. It looked fishy, and I made sure to not have somehow been redirected to some other server. Either way, real or not, I still didn't give the credit card number anyways, so it's all good.

Here we go, I just tried it again, and here's what I get:

 

[Swift]

What I'm saying is that looking at the URL in your picture it's obvious that it's not really Ebay. I just looked at the URL for the change of email for me and it's very different http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/

So, I would say something is up somewhere.

BTW, whats the .ca stand for after ebay?

 

[Kylehnat]

eBay.ca is the Canadian version.

 

[Swift]

eBay.ca is the Canadian version.

thanks

 

[exigeracer]

So that means that dozens of people are being scammed every day, and eBay hasn't realized it yet?

 

[Omnis]

wtf is arribada? That's totally a fake site, dude. They might've hacked the ebay link onto some kind of proxy thing.

Never give them your credit card number. If I was you, I would call them on the phone.

 

[Swift]

So that means that dozens of people are being scammed every day, and eBay hasn't realized it yet?

Quite possibly. But as Omnis said, don't do it.

 

[exigeracer]

Call them? It is impossible to ever reach any real person, and then I'd be lucky if they even consider doing something about it. This page has been around for at least half a year now.

There goes my faith in eBay, if they can't even detect something as major as this...

Of course I'm not going to do it. I didn't do it then, and I didn't do it just now. If I found out it was real, I still wouldn't do it.

EDIT: Looks like you were all wrong. It is real. If you are using a free, web-based email (like my hotmail), you need a credit card number to "identify" that it is really you. The topic has come up dozens of times on their Help Center place. It's still rediculous that you need a credit card to do this...

 

[Omnis]

Hey, I know this guy, Bryce, and he defaced Nasa easily. Who the hell knows what people are capable of when they're after credit card info?


...Especially on ebay Canada. I mean, Canada? What the hell ever happens in Canada?

edit: Oh, cool. Okay, that's good. Do you need a gmail invite or something? I can hook you up. I can't believe people still actually use hotmail. That's a big Lol.

 

[Swift]

EDIT: Looks like you were all wrong. It is real. If you are using a free, web-based email (like my hotmail), you need a credit card number to "identify" that it is really you. The topic has come up dozens of times on their Help Center place. It's still ridiculous that you need a credit card to do this...

That is ridiculous. But, I guess it's something you're going to have to do or get a new email address.

Sorry about my earlier assumption.

 

[exigeracer]

Way too much effort required to set up another email. I don't get spam on the hotmail, and the specs for usage and storage are all identical to gmail, so I don't really care.

I only really use the hotmail because of MSN Messenger, but thanks for the offer anyways.

I'll just live with having to check the home email for eBay notifications or whatever.