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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?

I feel pretty safe behind my wall of firewalls, early warning devices, anti hack software and so forth and I would have to be a total dip whit to send my information to these scam merchants. But even so it’s a worry isn’t it? Wouldn’t it be good to know how to stay safe from these people.

We will start of with the obvious techniques and then work our way up to more sophisticated stuff although none of it is difficult.

It’s pretty straight forward actually to tell if an email came form eBay or not and I think you find the following information helpful. If you know any other techniques please let everyone know at www.auctionwealthsecrets.com/auctionnews/ my eBay blog.

1. Who sent the email: If you are about to open an email in your email system (email client) take a quick peek at the ‘from address’ and see if the email has come from eBay.com. If not you should immediately be suspicious and delete the email. Check twice and make sure you haven’t mistaken the eBay.com address for a spoof such as 1eBay.com, eBy.net or something similar it’s and easy but expensive mistake to make.

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 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 common spoof techique is to send a winning bidder email If you haven’t bid on the named item and even if you have just wait a few minutes. As I am about to give you a fool proof technique to preventing making a mistake …You are waiting aren’t you?

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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