Email from "Ebay"

lathmach

I never open hyperlinks to suspect scams. This was in my mail today.
I don't have anything going on Ebay. This has to be a attempt to steal my Ebay info.

Subj: Your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement.
Date: 2/20/03 11:44:13 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Service Ietter
To: Lathmach



Dear eBay User,

It has become very noticeable that another party has been corrupting your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement policy listed:

4. Bidding and Buying

You are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller if you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats or are the highest bidder as described below. If you are the highest bidder at the end of an auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller, or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement.

You received this notice from eBay because it has come to our attention that your current account has caused interruptions with other eBay members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account. Please verify your account or the account may become disabled. Click Here To Verify Your Account -

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Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc.

hughesm1

Did you right click on the "Click Here To Verify Your Account" and check the target of the hyperlink (for any discrepencies)? If it's legit, just log into your account normally. I fart off literally all emails from eBay anyhow.

CarlWohlforth

I think I got that one, or one like it. Don't "verify" your account, they will get some private info that way.

I also (finally) got the one about the guy who needs me (of all people!) to help move his $32 million dollars out of Africa. They just need access to my bank account to make me rich (ya, right). I used to feel left out that everybody has gotten that one except me.

RotatedRainbows

I also (finally) got the one about the guy who needs me (of all people!) to help move his $32 million dollars out of Africa. They just need access to my bank account to make me rich (ya, right). I used to feel left out that everybody has gotten that one except me.

LOL I have received that one about a hundred times and I cannot help but laugh everytime I get one. It has been a few weeks since I received one so they must have moved on looking for more fertile ground.

ah

The memo looks official but, that how the scam artist works.

AbesNeighbor

I can tell you it happened to me. I received the same "Verify your Account Info" message. It had the EBAY logo and looked legit.

Anyway, I clicked on the link and it looked exactly like the E-Bay form I originially completed,, sooooo, I proceeded to give my personal credit info, credit card #, etc.

A couple of days later there is a call on my answering machine from my credit card company wanting me to call them and verify my change of address... The only probelm was, I hadn't changed my address.

Someone had use my credit card to purchase something on Home Shopping Network and wanted it shipped to a different State.

I reported everthing to E-Bay..as you know getting to e-mail anthing to E-bay is a chore. I also had to cancel my in force credit card and get a new one issued. A terrible waste of time. It didn't cost me anything, except the time.

Its so easy to fall into that trap.

Dan

Oh, I also had to order a credit report from each of the credit reporting agencies (3) of them and delete the "new" address that appeared.

All just a pain in the a_ _

MadMonk

I saw something on that not too awful long ago. A board member said it was a scam, and showed us by posting the code. I can't remember what he pointed out, but his method proved the point.

Lakesammman

Got it yesterday. Address was non-ebay so deleted it.

CLASSICS

sounds like another scam..i received an email asking me to give xyz company my credit card number, as ebay needs to up-date my account!..........guess they thought i was born yesterday..

AbesNeighbor

Well, I apparently was born yesterday... The message I received (about six months ago) looked very, very legitimate.

I had not heard of any scams of this type or I would have been even more cautious though. At the same time, that guy on MSN.com was doing a story about fraud and E-bay. He e-mailed me wanting to know about how it worked.

It may sound like you think you will never get scammed, but I can tell you "You don't have to be born yesterday". When it happens, you won't belive it.

The best thing is, it didn't cost me anything but a little time and a great education.