People looking to find out ID and associated Passwords are getting better at the phishing process.
Emails look official, but there will always be something that is "not quite right".
Things to do .. or not to do
(1) Never respond to an email about eBay or Paypal through the email.. I have always gone to the official website to see if anything wrong is indicated there.
(2) If there is a listing ID in the email... check it on eBay, not throuigh the email, and many times this number has not been my listing, or is bogus, with no listing on eBay
(3) Each email from eBay or Paypal has a unique format with unique information and numbers, and if emails come unexpected, assume it is a phishing email, no matter how official the email looks and check, check, check on the official website...
(4) All communications now go through eBay and no one sees your Name, eBay ID or email address unless they have bought something from you.....
(5) Potential buyers will ask questions about one of my listings... and I used to answer with my name and eBay ID.
I now answer with only my eBay ID... With my name and location from my listings on eBay they can go to the internet... and through ... White Pages or Peoplefind options, they can track where I live, my telephone number and then my email address, also my business and sometimes even more.
Even ....more websites include satellite photos, using Mapquest and other such sites... and then there is Google Maps... a street wise view of where we live...
Nothing is hidden on the internet if you know where to look...
I know, because I have traced where some of my problem buyers or buyers with delivery problems live.
(6) I have very deliberately stayed away from sites such as Facebook... mainly because there have been problems with how this site handles personal information. The Canadian government has gone after Facebook for mishandling personal information
I am on the internet as a seller on eBay, and no more.... There is more but that was from before eBay and related to my previous work in agriculture ... There is no way to tie that with what I do today
As sellers on eBay we must always be careful ... extremely careful if eBay counts for a lot of income.
Phishing emails are getting better....
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Even though you have virus protection, a software firewall... hardware firewall in a router.... as I do
We search the internet, and something tags along into your computer... May not be a problem... but it just may get activated and become a problem... Virus software or firewalls do not stop 100 % of all problems on the internet.
This after 10 years of experience and two major problems....that required major intervention...
One never knows what is coming into one's computer. Run a program such as Spyhunter or Ad Aware and find how much junk ends up on a computer.
In real life we drive around a city and do see piles of nonsense or garbage.... only in a computer we never see the garbage... but it is there for no one to see...
Clean up software is needed. in addition to Anti-Virus software or firewalls ... Something I found to be necessary.
People worldwide can visit you through the internet....
