E-BAY and the Frigidaire Parts

[angus]

I am curious about something. Tonight I tried to bid on some of those Frigidaire 1-18 parts since the exact parts I need are up for auction. But something troubling happened. When I tried to log into my account, I immediately got a notice that began with "Attention!", then went on to talk about how increased fraud has led E-BAY to revamp it's sign in procedures to avoid unauthorized access.

Then it went on to require entering every possible form of personal and financial access information, including bank account numbers and related routing numbers, credit card information (along with that three digit code on the back of everyones' card), email address, and mother's maiden name.

To me, this is clearly not information E-Bay should require. Who in their right mind would ever disclose such dangerous information? I wanted those parts, but really!!

Finally after several efforts, I was able to send a message to E-Bay's Customer Support Team.

Other than the obvious issue about the kind of information required as I described, I also noted that where the message talked about "authorization", it was spelled in the European fashion "authorisation". For some reason, that just doesn't jive either.

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[brettsomers]

you obviously wound up on some kind of spoof page. the thing to do in this case is type "ebay.com" DIRECTLY into your address bar in a new browser window. then enter the item #, or do a new search.

 

[launderess]

Never, Ever, Ever

Give over such information to anyone claiming to be eBay/from a page representing to be eBay. Copy and paste the url from the browser window of the offending site and foward to eBay via email. They will take care of things.

This sort of scam goes on all the time with eBay, it's like rats or other vermin, soon as eBay shuts one down, another several spawn to take it's place. Almost all are overseas (Russia and the former Soviet Union states are big), as parts of Africa. Either way they can clean you out in a matter of minutes.

It is always best to access eBay directlh thru their home page. And if any page has a whiff about it, log out at once, and clear your cache.

Ebay will contact you within several days, but you may wish to go ahead and change the password to your account to be on the safe side. When I reported a whiffy email claiming to be from eBay, they took action; mind you much of it was on my end from what I could see. Ebay froze my account until I provided/reconfirmed account information including a telephone number, which they called at the time indicated.

L.

 

[gadgetgary]

Spoof!

When this happens, immediately forward to [email protected]. If you get the same message with Paypal, you can forward to [email protected]. They will investigate and send you the proper information.