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 paloma91
 
posted on November 3, 2005 06:09:46 AM
This came in on an email address that I do NOT use on ebay.

X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 206.190.49.181; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:45:36 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 212.227.48.27
X-Originating-IP: [212.227.48.27]
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Authentication-Results: mta193.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=ebay.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 212.227.48.27 (EHLO eubucoverlag.de) (212.227.48.27) by mta193.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:45:36 -0800
Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=infongd5918) by eubucoverlag.de with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1EWNQW-0000Bf-00 for [email protected]; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:21:28 +0100
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:21:28 +0100
Precedence: bulk
From: "eBay" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: [email protected]
Content-type: text/html
Subject: FPA NOTICE: Suspicious Activity -Section 9- [email protected]
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Length: 2559


eBay request: Please confirm your identity.

Dear [email protected] ,

Your bank has contacted us regarding some suspicious activity, including unauthorized charges of your credit card via the eBay system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your eBay account. Please use the link below to sign in to eBay, check and if necessary update your information we have on file. Once you have updated your account records your session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.


To update your record and verify your identity please click here:
It is highly recommended that you right click on the link and select "Open in new window" option
as some mail clients will not allow you to proceed!
https://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?OneTimePayment&ssPageName=h:h:sin:US

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.




eBay will request personal data (password, credit card/bank numbers, and so on) in this email.

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




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 tOMWiii
 
posted on November 3, 2005 06:27:11 AM
PalOma:

Do a "MESSAGE SOURCE" on that email & take a gander at where that link REALLY goes!

"veeeery interesting....."





[ edited by tOMWiii on Nov 3, 2005 06:27 AM ]
 
 sparkz
 
posted on November 3, 2005 12:05:36 PM
The Germans are now competing with the Romanians for the Scam Artist gold medal.


A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
 
 tOMWiii
 
posted on November 3, 2005 12:15:30 PM
Sparky:

The Krauts can't hold a candle next to the vLads as far as eBay scams are concerned!

The Romo criminals are truly EVIL!







[ edited by tOMWiii on Nov 3, 2005 12:16 PM ]
 
 
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