Warning over fake eBay invoice email that could steal your bank account details
The scam works by renaming all of your files with a virus and will them prompt you to spend money to fix the problem
EBAY shoppers are being warned not to open an email which will end up locking their computer and steal their bank account details.
The fake email tells users that they've spent a hefty amount of money on the auction site and that they should pay the invoice via a download link.
But by clicking on the link, shoppers will accidentally install a Locky Ransomware onto your computer.
The scam works by scrambling and renaming all of your files with a virus and will them prompt you to spend money on a decryption key to fix the problem.
Action Fraud issued the warning on Twitter after it received more than 50 reports.
Ransomware is a type of cyber attack that sees hackers take control of computers, tablets or mobile phones and demand a payment.
Victims are advised never to pay the ransom as it encourages hackers to keep doing them and doesn’t guarantee that you will get your files back.
In one of the biggest ransomware cases, more than 200,000 victims across 150 countries were infected by malicious software known as WannaCry in May.
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But it's also not the first time, that eBay users were targeted by clever scams.
Earlier this year, an eBay seller lost £850 after a buyer had his account hacked.
A separate investigation in May also found that innocent users of the auction site were being duped by criminals into spending thousands of pounds on stolen and cloned cars.
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