Sunday, June 28, 2020

Ebay Phishing Email - We have a surprise for ebay


For the record, the eBay email is going around with subject

We have a surprise for ebay ๐Ÿ“ฃ

This email tries to trick you into previewing the images below, and you may think that is safe, but is the catch. 

What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page.


From:  Congratulation <N7aLJ@n7alj.us>

Subject:  We have a surprise for ebay 

Has A Big Surprise for You


Claim one of our free exclusive

reward offers (minimum value $90)

if you can't see the images below, please, click here <---PHISHING LINK 






How to tell this is a Phishing email?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it.

  3. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

How to examine Email Message Source?

Now let's look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from source domain, like apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing URLs at Google now 

If you have received this email, take further action now by, click these links

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/


Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

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