posted on February 17, 2004 04:58:12 PM
I just received an email from eBay with a subject line of Security Notice. It tells me that someone tried 3 times to access my eBay account and used the wrong password. Therefore, "according to eBay policy" they will shut down my eBay account if I don't verify information within 24 hours. The information requested is my eBay Id, Password and my email address and Password. Everything about this email looks like an official eBay communication. How do I verify it really came from eBay? Would eBay need to ask for my email password? I'm wary of filling out the form but on the otherhand I have current auctions running and certainly don't want everything shut down. Anyone else have this happen? Any help from the collective knowledge pool would be much appreciated! Thanks.
posted on February 17, 2004 05:05:17 PM
If you know how to read the headers in the messages you could check if the IP address is ebay at www.samspade.org.
Or write ebay an email and ask them if its legit. Or just log into your account. If you can, then its a bogus email.
posted on February 17, 2004 05:50:01 PM
I've had that same email 3 or 4 times. It's not from Ebay. In fact, any email from "Ebay" that has a link for you to submit a password is fake. Forward it to [email protected]. They will reply with an email to verify that it is a scam.
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posted on February 17, 2004 07:49:06 PM
Hey auctionguy, With the new year, I promised myself that I would not say a bad word to anyone that makes a post on this board. I will ask you this, please give some thought about what type of flag you post next time because the one you posted is not going to fly.
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posted on February 17, 2004 08:26:16 PM
Got one almost like it last week addressed to "Dear Ebay member" I was given 72 hrs to log into the link. I forwarded it to [email protected] and they confirmed that they did not send it.
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