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Got this email from eBay Safe Harbour. Real or fake?

eBay Safe Harbor Department Notice

Dear eBay Member,

Your bank has contacted us regarding some unauthorized charges of your credit card via the eBay system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your eBay account. Please sign in to eBay using the link bellow, and update the requested information. Please verify all the info requested to be accurate. None of the personal information requested will be stored on our system, everything is used only to verify that you are the rightful owner of the account and of the credit card linked to your account.


Please use this link to verify the security information:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?signin=1&user . . .
After responding to the message, please allow us 24 hours for the information to be verified. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.

Respectfully,

eBay Trust and Safety Department


DPOTD-3
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CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


Don

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  • LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    please allow us 24 hrs to clean out your bank account. image
    Terry

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>please allow us 24 hrs to clean out your bank account. >>


    Heck, they can do that in about 30 seconds. Those two digit numbers go fast. image

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • cachemancacheman Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭
    uh? image
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it is a scam attempt. Forward it to Spoof@ebay.com
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    Is this a scam email?

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    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    I've got a mushroom on my ship! image
    Terry

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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>Please sign in to eBay using the link bellow >>

    That line means 100% fake! EBay, Paypal, Yahoo, etc., never tell you to click on a link in their messages. Instead, they tell you to go to their website and sign in.
    Roy


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  • MakaroviiMakarovii Posts: 336


    << <i>Yes, it is a scam attempt. Forward it to Spoof@ebay.com >>



    Be sure to include the header so they can have a chance to trace the asswipes!
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  • LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
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  • PuddlePiratePuddlePirate Posts: 728 ✭
    definately a fake, forward the whole thing back to ebay at spoof@ebay.com. I also get similar about once a week for paypal and now bidpay. I'd like to give these guys a "bug" of my own.
    "Any fool can use Power, but it is our wits that make us men."

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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this a scam email? >>



    If you have to ask.....image
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  • YousriYousri Posts: 477


    << <i>Is this a scam email?

    Is Arsenal the second best team in the premier? >>



    So it is not a scam...............image





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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    Current standings - read 'em and weep, Gunners fans!

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  • MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
    You can see that it is a scam by looking at the sign in link. Ebay sign in is always on a secure server meaning that the address must ALWAYS start with HTTPS. The link in your email is only HTTP.

    Marcel
    Ebay user name: 00MadMuffin00
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Definately a scam. Right click on the email and view source then copy and paste that here.
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  • LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
    What do you reckon the success rate is on an e-mail like that?

    I know one old geezer who's a coin dealer who fell for it. But he's not quite the thing - turned up at the Midland Coin Fair one day and forgot his coins.

    "Left 'em on the kitchen table din I"
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Ditto for similar emails from various banks. Even my wife knows to "delete without reading" the ones from SunTrust ... a bank that doesn't operate in our part of the country.
    Askari



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