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I'm not sure if this a real email from eBay or not

relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭
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Dear eBay user,
As stated in the User Agreement, Section 41.1, we may send you this email.
After the multiple frauds registered lately, our company has initiated a study regarding this problem.
In this study the company has reached the conclusion that most of the frauds
were possible because of the low email service security level .
For a best deployment of our further activities (the frauds prevention)
our company has decided to test for free the security of the email services that you (our users) use.
Hoping you have understood that we are doing all these for your own safety and
for the good deployment of the relations between our company and its parteners
we suggest you to acces the following form to test your e-mail:

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?TestEmail&bpuser=0



Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards, Security eBay (Security Department)
eBay Inc

Thank you for using eBay!
http://www.ebay.com

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    forward it to spoof@ebay.com
    theknowitalltroll;
  • LALASD4LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭
    If it is real, it would show on your e-mail section when you log in your account.

    But this does not look real to begin with.
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  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    Fake. eBay never links you to a webpage from one of their emails.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If it's fake, it is certainly well crafted >>



    Actually, it isn't. eBay never opens with "Dear eBay user". Plus the grammar sucks.

    Russ, NCNE

    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    "good deployment of the relations "


    Very odd wording.
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  • HedgerHedger Posts: 1,238
    Total BS. They cant even spell access. Oh yeah, since when is security at eBay an issue?
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Like the others said, fake-r-ino. Fake, fake, fake.

    A real good one slipped through my filters the other day. Instead of the usual "unusual activities" style phishes, it was an invitation to join eBay's PowerSeller program. It was clearly copied verbatim from a real invite, as I've had a few of those before, with the only change being the URL to go to.

    I suspect that any "real" eBay communiqué will show up in your My Messages in My eBay. Of course, it's only a matter of time before the scammers bust that one, too...
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    With my e-mail program, all I have to do is leave the cursor above the link in the e-mail address for a second or two, and the actual URL where the click will take you appears.

    Makes it easy to spot a phish right on the spot.
  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    Speaking of eBay security.. did you know that eBay passwords are NOT case sensitive?

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Speaking of eBay security.. did you know that eBay passwords are NOT case sensitive? >>



    Yeah, that's something I've always wondered about myself. It's about the only site I've seen like that.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭
    Definitely fake.
    I think the first line about 41.1 is something you would only start off a letter with if you were a fraud.
    Also as already pointed out there are simple misspellings such as access. Also partners is spelled parteners.

    In fact this whole sentence is horrible : Hoping you have understood that we are doing all these for your own safety and
    for the good deployment of the relations between our company and its parteners
    we suggest you to acces the following form to test your e-mail:

    I also like how it is signed
    Regards, Security eBay (Security Department) <--- What stupid sounding name.

    I also don't think it is in eBay's best interest to be telling all of their customers that they have a "low email service security level", even if they do.

    Just my 2 Lincolns, thanks for the warning

    joe
    Lincoln Cent & Libertad Collector
  • cswcsw Posts: 432 ✭
    I'm with Russ and joefro: at best, decidely un-eBay/corporate/lawyer language, and at worst, ungrammatical.

    If eBay really wants to get a hold of you, you'll know it.

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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    I dunno. They are doing it for my own safety and for the good deployment of the relations between our company and its parteners

    I think I should acces the link
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When in doubt, consider it fake.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • cartwheelcartwheel Posts: 845 ✭
    To quote Elaine Bennis from Seinfeld: "Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake!"

    As advised, forward it to spoof@ebay.com.

    Cartwheel
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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>As advised, forward it to spoof@ebay.com. >>

    As a test, the next time I get a bona fide real eBay email (like an auction listing, or bid confirmation) I'm going to forward it to spoof just to see what they say about a real one. All the fake ones just generate form letters.
  • WekarWekar Posts: 470
    without reading what you wrote besides the topic title, I can 100% money-back guarantee the email is fraudulent and not from eBay. If you clicked on and links in the email your computer is no longer safe and you should spend the next few hours running anti-virus, anti-spyware, removing temporary internet files, clearing caches, deleting cookies, looking for odd files, and visiting all the websites you have logins for and changing the passwords.
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭


    << <i>I'm going to forward it to spoof >>



    I tried that once and they do reply saying it is a genuine email from eBay. So they have two canned replies, one for the fakes and one for the real ones. It must be fun for the guy to get to press the other button once in a while.

    I'm still not sure about this one though.

    It is possible eBay outsourced the email project and who used a Russian-to-English translator to generate the email image


    (edited because my English was worse than that in the email)
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  • WekarWekar Posts: 470


    << <i>it is certainly well crafted >>


    ok, I read your post in full now, I have to say I completely disagree about this email being well crafted. Definitely not written by a native English speaker, or maybe it was just a typical high school graduate with no sense of grammar. Definitely not from eBay.

    One more time, hope you didn't click on the link, otherwise you're screwed.
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  • WekarWekar Posts: 470


    << <i>Russian-to-English translator to generate the email >>



    The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.

    This was the first sentence to go from English - Russian - English in the DoD's first version of their Russian translation program back in the day, care to guess what the original English sentence was? This has always amused me to no end.
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  • HedgerHedger Posts: 1,238
    I wonder if those scammers lurk here to see how well they're doing and to see which mistakes they need to correct.
  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529


    << <i>As a test, the next time I get a bona fide real eBay email (like an auction listing, or bid confirmation) I'm going to forward it to spoof just to see what they say about a real one. All the fake ones just generate form letters. >>




    I did exactly that. I got the form letter back from them telling me it was fake. image

    (it was a genuine eBay email that was addressed to me by name, not i.d.)

    I responded to the email asking them to clarify. They then told me they made a mistake.

    I seriously doubt they look into very many of the spoof emails that are forwarded to them.

  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    I tried your translation at this site and it worked pretty good

    The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.

    becomes

    Âîäêà õîðîøàÿ, íî ìÿñî ãíèëîå.

    and translates back to

    Vodka good, but meat rotten.

    I know some Russians who came to the US via Israel during the 1980's "Jews returning to Israel" facade and that is pretty much how they talk - the seem to drop works like "is" and "a"

    BTW - If you think the Palenstinians hate the Jews, they really hate the Russian Jews who emigrated because they have no right to be there.

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