Folks, recently it occurred to me that there is one very subtle way a hi-jacker could get you to unwittingly go to his fake ebay site. We sellers commonly answer a question from a prospective buyer from the email ebay sends us, not by finding a new message in our My Messages inbox. We answer by clicking the link in the email.  The one which takes us into the response screen in My Messages. This is the one time we all click email links.  That's fine. But suppose you weren't logged into ebay at the moment. You might not be. And suppose that is a FAKE question and a really clever criminal (let's not beat around the bush - these people are criminals, not the cutsie-sounding 'fraudster' ebay insists on using) has created his fake ebay signin page, and you sign in without thinking twice, answer the question, and BANG your account is hijacked.  If you were already signed in to ebay, and a fake email arrived, I do not know what would happen. The safest thing is to NOT use that Respond In My Messages link in any ebay email.


Be careful out there. Be careful in here.