Are Ebayers And Paypalers Really That Dumb?
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The article "Are eBayers and PayPalers Really That Dumb?" is about auctions, it has been written by Floyd Snyder.
By at this moment you have no doubt read no less then six zillion warnings aobut "phishing".
(See definition below)Sorry to test your patience, but here’s yet a sceond one.I have a small presence on eBay selling art prints and posters. A hundred years ago, (maybe I exaggerate a little), I had three gallery/frame shops that I sold to somoene that wanted them more then I did.
About a year, maybe two years, back I decided I wanted to see about all the hype surronuding eBay. Truth be known, I also wanted to use it as an excuse to get back into the art business. Conversely, I reestablished a nubmer of old contacts with some of my friends and associates in the publishing business. That is when I set up my eBay Store.One of the things I quickly leanred was that these “phishing” thieves must think I am really dumb.Since the first month I opened my store, I have been getting phishing emails. Lately, the numebr I get has increased to as many as 5-6 every single day.These thieves must be making money on the scam. It must be working, and three must be some human being out there that are falling for this.
Otherwise, why would they keep doing?I get not just “look alike” but copies of e-mail forms from these human being that are identical to the legitimate forms from eBay’s new e-mail sytsem. To be honest with you, I cannot tell them aprat and do not even try. I just delete them. I don’t read any of them.
I don’t even click on them beyond what it takes to delete them.One of scams they run is sending an e-mail saying they have bought one of my prints. They claim that they have paid for it but that I have failed to deilver it to them. And there’s the “Respond Now” button right where it shuold be. The toruble is it does not go to the legitimate eBay site.
It goes to a phony site that these thieves have set up. If I were to click on it and log in, they would get my ID and Password which would give them full access to my account.
To copmound this, they are using the same information on their PayPal account and who knows how many other sites.Same thing goes for PayPal.I have had a PayPal account that goes back a year or so before eBay bought them out.
To this day I have never opneed an e-mail form PayPal.There is a simple solution to what is becoming a growing problem – don’t do it!
Don’t fall for it! !If these human being want to contact you, they will do so from inside you account.
Incidentally, PayPal is a bank, and like any bank account you have to track the transactions, check your balances, deposits, and debits… “Balance your check book” every month. I do this, and to this day I have not found one penny unaccounted for in a leigtimate fashion.
Although I do have some doubts about the three drivers I bought on eBay that still can’t find the fairway on Saturday.Keep in mind, it doesn’t take a genuis to set-up (steal) someone else’s page lay-out.
And anyone can attach any URL address to any form or set of words and letters.Just cause it says paypal.Com doesn’t make so.PhishingA method of identity theft carried out through the creation of a website that seems to represent a legtiimate company. The visitors to the site, thinikng they are purchasing something from a real business, submit their personal information to the site. The criminals then use the personal information for their own purposes, or sell the information to other criminal parties.Investopedia CommentaryA classic example of phishing is an identity thief setting up a website that looks like it belongs to a major bank.
Then, that thief sends out many emails that claim to be from the major bank and request the e-mail reicpients to input their personal banking information (such as their PIN) into the website so the bank may update their records. Once the scammer gets a hold of the needed personal information, they attempt to access the victim's bank account. –dictionary.ComFloyd Snyder is the founder and former owner of Executive Advertising, Camera Ready Art and Strictly Business Magzaine. Currently he is the owner of Striclty Business Magazine at http://www.Sbmag.Org, TraderAide.Com at http://www.Traderaide.Com/ and eBay Store FrameHouseGallery at http://stores.Ebay.Com/FrameHouseGallery.
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Are eBayers and PayPalers Really That Dumb?
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