Real ebay email or not?

smithb · January 30, 2004 4:14PM

Dear Customer,

We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended because errors occurred during you personal profile verification process. To avoid this suspension please login here and provide us with the information requested. We will suspend your account for a period of 3 to 10 days if the provided information will be different then those we store in our database. Your account will be again operational only after you mail us all your personal information for further investigations.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide us.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.

Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.

Regards,
Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.

I recieved this and the link that you are supposed to click on goes to nothing...just a page that cannot be displayed..wondering what it might be or if this is even a real email from ebay.. >.<

pandrews · January 30, 2004 4:14PM

not

smithb · January 30, 2004 4:44PM

Alright so what could this possibly be for though? I just got it tonight and the link is already supposedly dead..

pandrews · January 30, 2004 4:51PM

<< <i>Alright so what could this possibly be for though? I just got it tonight and the link is already supposedly dead.. >>

i dunno.. it says you're prohibited from using ebay in any way.. i bet if you tried to bid on something, you would be able to..

smithb · January 30, 2004 5:00PM

Hrm..sure can , just a pointless email I guess...Thanks for the help.

pandrews · January 30, 2004 5:02PM

no prob..

34GoudeyCollector · January 30, 2004 6:15PM

This is a scam e-mail that has been going around to get User ID's and passwords for EBay and several other things (PayPal included). Best advice is to delete them...by all means don't respond. I was getting 3-4 a week, but now it has almost completely stopped.

Ken

Putty · January 30, 2004 9:02PM

It's a scam, Pandrews is right on. When in doubt log onto Ebay through Internet explorer and attempt to do just about anything, view your info, transactions or bid on an item. You should never by any means log onto Ebay through a link provided within an email, 99% of them are a scam.

GoSoxBoSox · January 30, 2004 10:38PM

eBay will never sent you an e-mail that asks for you to log on. It's just that simple.

brianwintersfan · January 31, 2004 12:02PM

Forward all email like that to spoof@ebay.com

Real ebay email or not?

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