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Need to know urgently, did I login on a spoof ebay site here?
I just made a purchase about an hour ago. I got to the ebay page via Avast secure browser. I found what I wanted and then logged in, and bought the item. I just checked the order details to make sure I had bought the correct colour from options.
Then I got a bit scared.
As I noticed something odd about the page. The URL was "vod.befr.ebay.be "
Checked the security certificate. This is what it said:
Issued to:
Common Name (CN) vod.befr.ebay.be
Organization (O) eBay, Inc.
Organizational Unit (OU) <Not Part Of Certificate>
Issued by:
Common Name (CN) DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1
Organization (O) DigiCert Inc
Organizational Unit (OU) <Not Part Of Certificate>
Validity period:
Issued On Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:00:00 AM
Expires On Wednesday, January 27, 2027 at 11:59:59 PM
SHA 256
Fingerprints:
Certificate cc1653916eaf32d863b8eca63ed024f139533462dc0b3c541942a9cb6bcc8bc7
Public Key 65624329c1825d530450b53aff7f525cef445b9977405515477414502135d081
Is this for real or a spoof page I suddenly ended up on? The URL is very strange.
Please, anyone who can help, I urgently need advice about this.
I tried contacting ebay. Of the contact options provided, there is not one box I can click on which is relevant to my problem, so I am stick and not able to get through.
Thank you for any help.
dog2s18
OP6 months agopeaseblossom, thank you very much. It's probably okay then and definitely connected to ebay. But how I ended up on a Belgian page with a Belgian URL, iI don't know. It freaked me a bit to be honest. I would have expected Avast to flag it if it had been dodgy, but nothing from them.
I wonder if it could be something to do with the seller I bought from? Even though they are based in Birmingham, maybe they source stuff from Belgium. They had "euro" something in their username, and there were quite a number of graphics on the listing.
I got a normal confirmation email from them anyway.
Thank you for your help.
**peaseblossom**
Mentor6 months agoYou're welcome. Yes, I would think it's to do with the seller. Maybe they originally registered on ebay.be which is the Belgium site.
**peaseblossom**
Mentor6 months agoAccording to Google AI: The subdomain vod.befr.ebay.be serves as a technical infrastructure component for delivering video on demand or large media assets for eBay's French-speaking Belgian site.
So not a spoof site by the sound of it but you might like to clear cookies.
@dog2s18