Bogus eBay e-mail???

Steve1124

I just got this e-mail, alledgedly from eBay, with a subject message: "TKO Notice: Urgent Safeharbor Department notice". The body of the e-mail message was as follows (cut & pasted below):
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Dear valued eBay member,

We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due to concerns we have for the safety and integrity of the eBay community.

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 to us.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the update of your actual account.

If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

Please update your records by the 10th of January.

Once you have updated your account records your eBay session will not be interrupted and will
continue as normal.

To update your eBay records click on the following link:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate



Regards,

Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.
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Is this some kind of scam, or bogus message?? I got something SIMILAR to this a while back from a phony PayPal impersonator. Has anyone else gotten anything from eBay like this? I just tried to call eBay to ask about it, but their customer service dept. is closed for the day, which further arouses my suspicions.

Fuzz

Scam city.
Several threads have discussed how to tell but never, ever click on a link to get there.
Fuzz

magellan

Steve, Just forward it to spoof@ebay.com . They'll email you veryifying it's a "phishing" scam. Any mail from Ebay (or Paypal) will address you by name. They also will never ask for any password or personal information in their emails.

Dave

AkbarClone

Every single eBay or paypal scam is always easy to spot by the salutation.

If it doesn't say "dear (your name)" it is a scam.

If you look at every single post that has ever been asked here about the scams, it is always the same.

No need to look past the salutation.

Steve1124

Thanks guys. I rather expected this was some kind of prank. I went to the eBay home page, and found the part that said to forward it to the spoof@ebay.com (which i did). It was even more bizarre that this same thing happened to me recently with a bogus PayPal--which really LOOKED real! Luckily i did NOT answer the questions in the link, which asked such personal questions as my userid and password!!