Another fake Ebay email

MadMuffin

Recieved this email this morning:


Alert ID : 0262341143

You have received this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids on eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To help speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay&user=02626454

Please save this fraud alert id for your reference

Please Note - If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be cancelled. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used to combat fraud.

We appreciate your support and understating, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc.

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification message.

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Note that the link in the mail does not begin with https:// as it should when dealing with usernames and passwords. Don't get fooled by this.

I'm getting sick of these morons trying to make money out of decent people's accounts

Marcel

Askari

I get one of these about every other week.

lordmarcovan

The crooks posing as the cops. Ah, the irony.