Attempted scam via fake emails regarding delivery of an item
Summary: marsupi3 shared an experience about a fraudulent email received after a purchase on eBay, asking them to pay fake customs fees. francexpressdeal suggested that receiving this fake email was a coincidence. nareio advised never to open these fraudulent emails and to check directly on eBay’s official website. passioncreationcollection.france added that these emails are common and mentioned the possibility that personal data may have been compromised in previous data breaches.
Hello everyone! Following a purchase on Ebay (a perfect purchase received on time, no problem with the seller), I received a fraudulent email telling me that the item was blocked, that I had to pay 2 euros in customs fees, an email sent by GLS.(TradingCompany.com), and when it came time to pay, I noticed that at the bottom of the page where they ask for details (postal and...banking..!), a mandatory 41 Euro subscription sneaks in in very small print after the usual "I acknowledge and accept blah, blah, blah,"just before clicking on the next page where we are supposed to pay the customs fees !!!
I stopped the process and contacted Ebay, they took the info and of course told me that I had done the right thing by canceling everything with this bogus email, but I also wanted to warn the Community, there you go, have a good day everyone, the title of the fraudulent email is "COLIS AVIS". Now, how did they know that I had bought an item on Ebay, mystery..?
passioncreationcollection.france
·3 years agoHello @marsupi3
https://www.cybermalveillance.gouv.fr/tous-nos-contenus/actualites/escroqueries-livraison-colis
Point 2: How did they get your email address or your phone number?
I think this point is a bit watered down; I'd add that many sites have already had part of their data stolen at least once (Orange, SFR, Facebook, ... not to mention the cyberattack on FranceConnect accounts that wasn't that long ago and leaked certain data from Ameli, tax, CPF, ... accounts, and an increasingly common reason for replacing it with digital identity)
Then as @francexpressdeal said, receiving this email may just be a coincidence because they are very frequent.
nareio
·3 years agoHello, @marsupi3
The simplest (and safest) thing is not to open the emails (and especially not the links!!!), and to go back to the site. If the email came from e-bay, you’ll find it in the inbox, or in the relevant section. The subject lines are well written, you can understand what it’s about without having to open it, and therefore where to go. (You can go back to "spoof" the email if it was fake!!)
An extra good reason not to communicate outside the messaging system....
(PS ..This applies to other sites.....)
Regards.
francexpressdeal
·3 years agoHello @marsupi3
these fake emails are sent very often. The fact that this happened while you had placed an order on the site is just a coincidence.