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At last a fool proof way to spot eBay scam and spoof emails 
By: Graham Waite
Have you ever got an email which claims to come from eBay and your not quite sure if it's a eBay scam or spoof with some one trying to get you to click on one of those links which sends all your personal details on your PC to the dodgy person who sent you it?
Well fortunately I have so many firewalls, warnings, whistles and bells on my PC that I would have to be the worlds biggest dumb ass to fall for that one. But if you want to make sure you don't fall foul of the dreaded eBay spammers and eBay spoofers here are some top tips to look out for.
Lets start with the obvious ways of stopping things going wrong and then we can build from there...
There are a few simple tips everyone can follow to tell if an email has actually come from Ebay or not.Here are a few things to look out for, if you know any more then feel free to let us all in on the story at my blog http://www.auctionwealthsecrets.com/auctionnews/
1. Look to see who the e-mail is from: When opening the email if you look towards the top of the email it should give an email address, does this email address end with @ebay.com? If not, you know to immediately remove it. Be careful here as these people are very devious check twice as they will try different domain extensions such as .tv, .org, .ng. and so on.
2. Where would the link in the email take you will indicate straight away that that email is from a scammer. Carefully place your mouse of over the link and confirm for yourself. Under no circumstances click on the link.
Tae your eye down to the bottom left corner just above the START button. This gives you the address of the webpage or email you will be sent to should you click the link if it does not start with http://www.ebay.com then it is a spoof or eBay scam email and should be handled with care. You can either send it to spoof@ebay.com and they will investigate it for you or you could of course just delete it.
I think it is also a good idea to block the address in your email system so you don't get any more annoying junk from this scammer.
3. Don't reply to any email until you have considered it's orgin and content. Many eBay scammers refer to transactions which never took place. If you haven't brought and item don't reply to the email and don't fall for the trick question about an item you haven't listed either.
A popular spoof technique is to send you a winning bidder email message.. If you haven't even placed a bid of the item in question and in fact even if you have just hang on couple of minutes and I am about to reveal a technique which will stop you making a foolish error for good... You are still waiting I hope?
Ok here is a fool proof way of making sure you DON't get burned by scam emails pretending to be from eBay or eBay buyers and sellers. It's so basic but totally fool proof.
All genuine emails sent through eBAY from either themselves, or eBay buyers and sellers will have a copy sent to your MY EBAY account and if you can't find it there it hasn't come from a genuine eBay source. See I said it was so easy didn't I. So the best way is to delete every potential scam email sent to your email address and communicate with eBay and buyers and sellers using the internal eBay systems set up. This way you can sleep soundly in your bed knowing you are safe from eBay scam emails.
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