posted on October 16, 2004 05:35:18 PM
I read that ebay was going to be having this 'feature' soon, but i just received this email, with TWO clickable links, one for logging in at ebay, the other for finding out more info about the feature ... do you think this email is real? or spoof?
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Subject: ***New Option for your eBay Account***
Date: 10/16/2004 8:25:26 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: [email protected]
In the next few days we will be introducing a new email option for members who want to get more information about items listed by their favorite sellers. The Favorite Seller Digest will include a sample of the most recent items listed by sellers included in your Favorite Sellers list, and you can select whether to receive the email weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.
When you add a new seller to your Favorite Sellers list, you will have the option to include them in the Favorite Seller Digest email. In addition, you can also add sellers to this email digest by going to the Edit Preferences page from your My eBay Favorite Seller table. The Favorite Seller Digest will be sent by eBay to your email address on file.
To learn more about this new feature, -click here-. In order to use this you must -log in- to your ebay account in the next 24 hours.
Regards,
eBay
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posted on October 16, 2004 05:55:25 PM
OK thanks glassgrl... that is I guess where I remember reading about this upcoming feature,.... BUT do you think this email I received, with clickable links, is really from ebay??
posted on October 16, 2004 06:05:43 PM
dang.... like i said about the paypal 'spoofs' this week, talking word for word about their down time last weekend and how it happened, etc ...
these scammers are getting realllly sophisticated and timely ... i'm stunned.
posted on October 17, 2004 01:15:22 AM
good morning...
stone: i LIVE in the eastern time zone, and all of our emails received show what time it was sent, according to Eastern time clock.
glassgrl: when i hold the cursor over the links, the url that shows on BOTH the 'click here' AND the 'log in'! are
http://64.70.135.52/update.html
{so DON'T go there!}
