I read today on the blog of one of my friends about her online shopping experience and how she ended up getting 2 orders of basically the same thing on accident. The last couple of days I have been doing a little bit of online shopping. I searched 3 or 4 sites and finally went with one that I never thought would've been the cheapest. I then searched some bookmarked sites for coupon codes - yes! I love my bookmarked sites for deals... (side note: I found a 'contest' on one of my daily sites that I check where if I was one of the first 1000 people to sign up for the mailing list at 12am eastern time, I could actually receive a free Shutterfly photo book! I took advantage of that one!!!!)
Anyway, I ended up making my purchase and I was so stinkin excited. I went to check my inbox for the receipt and guess what... here came 4 emails right in a row saying that I had won 4 different items on Ebay... The catch - they are all in Austria??? WHAT! I about started crying. 3 of the items were types of phones and 1 was something to do with stereos. I am currently freaking out cause I'm not sure what to do. I reported the emails as being a spoof. Ebay has been sending out a lot of information about spoof emails that are sent out. Hopefully I can get this taken care of soon because I'm not sending Euros to Austria!!!!! UGH!
-Jenn
UPDATE: Yay, this has been fixed! It was a spoof email - I changed all my passwords and Ebay has restored my account. So, as of this moment I think things are okay again. wow, that was pretty scary there for a bit!
2 comments:
very scary - was there any way you could have detected that it was spoof?
Yep, I sent information to Ebay and they characterized the emails as spoof! Scared me though!
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