What's up with these 'ebay' emails

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• BigKidAtHeart Posts: 1,799 ✭✭

  March 8, 2004 11:05PM

  have you looked up the item number?
  
  is it an active or real auction?
  
  

  

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• Fabfrank Posts: 2,312

  March 8, 2004 11:18PM

  I've been getting them too. About 2-3 per week. When I go to Ebay and type in the item # I'm told that the item has either been removed, auction expired, or can not be found. I just make sure not to click on any links and now delete the email

  Baseball is my Pastime, Football is my Passion

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• Aknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭

  March 8, 2004 11:25PM

  Sorry about that guys. Its mine. Just go ahead and send me the money......then the emails will stop. THANKS!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (this is a joke I have not nor never will spam email. Course you can still send me the money if you like)

  

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• lamar Posts: 16

  March 8, 2004 11:31PM

  I'm getting the same ones several times a week and can't figure out the point. I get more fake emails from ebay and paypal than I do real ones. I guess if you respond to it, they would have your email address, but from there I'm not sure of the point.

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• CON40 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭

  March 9, 2004 1:07AM

  These are spams designed to look like eBay item emails... I am on a Mac (less fear of viruses), so I clicked on the item link and it brings you to a website that has nothing to do with eBay... I didn't stay on it long enough to find out what it was... it's really an issue of fraud I suppose... someone should notify eBay that spammers are spoofing their correspondence in order to trick people into clicking on the link.
  
  

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• duner Posts: 625 ✭

  March 9, 2004 3:04AM

  i couldn't figure out the point of those thing either. but i didn't realize there was a link attached. that makes more sense, because a lot of websites pay per hit. so if they can get people to click on the links there's money to be made.

  Duner a.k.a. THE LSUConnMan
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