I've been Phished!

Not Fished, but Phished.

I warned about this a while ago when a friend of mine was caught by a Phishing scam as he was selling something on eBay. http://activerain.com/blogsview/48462/Ebay-Scam-Beware-Phishing

I warned that if they are scamming the sellers - just wait, they'll be scamming the buyers next.

And what do you know, this just popped up in my email! (click on the image to make it bigger)

You may notice that it looks just like an eBay email might.
The first thing I noticed was the TO: address (undisclosed-recipients)
It also has eBay listed in many of the links (bottom of my screen) but those are all redirects.
They put the name in there to fool you.
DO NOT CLICK ON ANY HYPER LINKS

(click on the image to make it bigger)

I haven't bought or bid on anything in eBay in months.

I don't know who CoconutCabana007 is and quite frankly I don't want to know.
So what did I do?
I went directly to eBay (as in typed it into my browser letter by letter)
Remember: DO NOT CLICK ON ANY HYPER LINKS

My eBay account shows I don't have an issue.

Phishing is a scam.

The first rule of Phishing is that they want to appear familiar to you.

No Matter how familiar an email looks to you DO NOT CLICK ON ANY HYPER LINKS

Phishing is the bad guys way of getting you to provide your private information.Beware of anything coming from your bank, any bank, PayPal, eBay, or even Active Rain that is unsolicited.

Once I knew it was a Phishing Incident (spoof) - I forwarded it to eBay.
They don't like this stuff. It gives them a bad name. They'll go after them. Here's their email address to report any sneaky stuff you come across.
spoof@ebay.com

So now I have to ask the question...

After all you just learned, did you click on that image to make it bigger?

Be careful out there!