[dzandiloo]

FYI People-this is happening alot lately, and it is often people with eBay/Paypal accounts. Please be very careful about responding to e-mails that look like they are from Paypal or eBay...they might say something like "there is something wrong with your account, please follow this link and log in so we can correct the problem..." Then you click the link, go to a page that looks like the eBay login screen, log in & get some message that everything is taken care of.... THIS IS A SCAM! eBay and Paypal will not e-mail you, asking you to follow a link. If they have any problems, they will wait for you to come to them and log in to inform you of any problems/changes.

Bottom line, when you follow those links, & fill in your eBay Password/ID, you are giving some con-man in Romania the keys to your life (don't be surprised if your e-mail password and eBay password are changed on you within a few days, and you can't access your stuff)--DON'T DO IT!!!

eBay/Paypal's web address will always have "https" at the beginning. The "s" denotes the secure site. If you follow one of those bogus, look at the address line. If it just says "http" before the web addy, without an s, it is not the real secure web site, and you should run away!!!

My husband is an eBay seller, and he gets these fraudulent notes daily. They are frighteningly realistic looking-with the logos and everything. Many of them have bad grammar, though, which is a tell-tale sign that they are fakes.

Anyway...thats just my lesson in internet/credit safety for the day.