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Thanks for warning about EBAY scam - alert to all if you get any email from Ebay asking for account
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Because of warnings on this board I got suspicious when I received an email today supposedly from update@ebay or something like that. It warned me I needed to update information or I wouldn't be able to bid after 5 days. Looked very official and had legitimate links to things such as the ebay privacy policy. What further tipped me off was that in the requested data was a request for my social security number. I never recalled ebay ever asking for that when I opened my ebay account. I then went to the ebay site to see if I could ascertain if the request was legitimate. Unfortunately there really is no one you can directly contact at ebay and all you get are form answers when you hit the contact button. Regardless, there was a reference to how to learn if an inquiry truly comes from ebay. It noted that the URL would always have ebay.com positioned in proximity to a slash. I went back to the subject email asking for update information and low and behold noted its URL had something about geocities instead. At that point I filled out their form by stating "This is a fraud" under name, and "Your URL is fake" under address, and on the third blank added, "Go to jail." (I would have loved to report these people to ebay but as noted above ebay makes it more than difficult to send them an email directly.)
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You will get a generic email from Ebay thanking you for sending the fake and in a couple of days you will get a second email stating that yes, that was definately a fake and informing you how to protect your account.
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Hope this alerts anyone else who gets this bogus email.
When I get these, I forward them to spoof@ebay.com, look up the sender's real e-mail address from the details section of the e-mail and also notify their ISP. It just take a few seconds ... and then I send the scammer an e-mail to his real address reporting he has been turned in all the way around ...
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The urls in the one that you received were probably inactive because ebay is very, very good about shutting down these spammers who are trying to get your personal info - we could only wish that they were half as good at catching the fraudulant auctions!
I got one of these emails yesterday and the urls from the email had already been shut down!
Also, for me at least, the biggest tip-off to the nature of the email is that the a-holes cannot seem to learn enough english to get the test of the message correct! No matter how much effort they put into making the email look official with links to actual ebay info and such, they seem to always have blatant grammitical or spelling errors in the message!
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