I guess that unless you live in a cave or on a desert island you will have seen or heard about fraud on the eBay sites. Now in this post I am not talking about the type of product fraud that is also very sadly common on eBay – But product fraud can also be found in every high street and in every car boot.

No the type of eBay Fraud I want to try and talk about and prevent happening to you is account fraud. Now if you follow the easy steps below I do hope that it will  help Prevent eBay  Fraud happening to you.
But also it will help prevent fraud on your Amazon Accounts, Bank Accounts etc.

1) Step one in helping to prevent eBay fraud on your account is down to you……
DO NOT reply to email that say they come from eBay or PayPal, and then go onto to ask for user names and passwords ……… eBay, PayPal or banks never ask you for that information, and never ever in an email

If you do ever get an email like that and you look very closly at it, you will often find spelling mistakes, grammer mistakes and also very often it will be to a name you do not call your self on eBay etc.
Another big giveaway check which email it is too, and again you will often find it is to an account you have never used with eBay.

Does that tip alone stop or prevent eBay fraud, I wish I could say yes it, does, but if you just follow that one step you can go along way to keep your account ok.

There are steps you can take as well as the above and one of those is to download the eBay toolbar and this includes the Account Guard, again not full proof but helps you prevent eBay fraud on your account.

If you do get an email you can send a copy of it to spoof@eBay.co.uk when you do this it helps the 2,000 strong trust and safety team at eBay ahead of the game, and of course keeping your firewall and anti-virus software upto date is another must.

Like I said at the start this is just a small bit on how to prevent eBay fraud happening to yours or a freinds account and further details can be found at http://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre/spoof.html .

Stay safe and do not answer emails from people asking for passwords and emails.

Another resource bought to you by Andrew Milburn and My Auction Empires