I ran across this on another site and thought I'd pass it on.
"A few days ago I was sifting through ebay auctions (as you do.) when I came across an auction that was of interest to me. When I opened up the auction, a typical looking ebay message popped up telling me that my sign in period had expired, and I needed to sign in again. Now, normally I might have just gone ahead and signed in again, except for two crucial things; # 1, I had "just" signed in, and #2, My Macaffee's site advisor popped up warning me that they suspect this was a scam & were trying to steal my sign in info. No doubt they wanted to hijack my account so they could sell EOS 1Ds's all day long for $399.
The scary part about this was they apparently had this imbedded right in an auction on ebay.
I reported this to ebay right away, but it still took them a couple hours to pull the auction.
The moral of this story is; If you ever get a reminder to sign in while looking at an auction, "DON'T DO IT!!!" Close every thing down, run adaware (or similar) then open ebay in a new window to check and see if you're still signed in. I was."
"A few days ago I was sifting through ebay auctions (as you do.) when I came across an auction that was of interest to me. When I opened up the auction, a typical looking ebay message popped up telling me that my sign in period had expired, and I needed to sign in again. Now, normally I might have just gone ahead and signed in again, except for two crucial things; # 1, I had "just" signed in, and #2, My Macaffee's site advisor popped up warning me that they suspect this was a scam & were trying to steal my sign in info. No doubt they wanted to hijack my account so they could sell EOS 1Ds's all day long for $399.
The scary part about this was they apparently had this imbedded right in an auction on ebay.
I reported this to ebay right away, but it still took them a couple hours to pull the auction.
The moral of this story is; If you ever get a reminder to sign in while looking at an auction, "DON'T DO IT!!!" Close every thing down, run adaware (or similar) then open ebay in a new window to check and see if you're still signed in. I was."
