posted on January 23, 2006 07:43:02 AM
is this real??
eBay Fraud Mediation Request
You have recieved this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
THE FRAUD ALERT ID CODE CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ATTACHED IN OUR FRAUD MEDIATION REQUEST FORM, IN ORDER TO VERIFY YOUR EBAY ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS.
Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614
(Please save this Fraud Alert ID Code for your reference.)
To help speed up this process, please access the following form to complete the verification of your eBay account registration informations:
http://www.eBay.com/cgi_bin/secure/Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614
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Please Note:
If we do not receive the appropriate eBay account verification within 48 hours, then we will assume this eBay account is fraudulent and will be suspended.
The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc.
enjoy the day!
Billyne
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got"
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posted on January 23, 2006 07:49:38 AM
If this email came addressed to your REAL name (not user name) then it is for real...otherwise SCAM!!
At any rate, DONT sign in to any links contained in the email - go directly to ebay and check it out. It should be in your messages if it's real.
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posted on January 23, 2006 07:58:02 AM
Sounds like a spoof. Just log into ebay (not through this email) and check your messages there. If it's not there it is a spoof. Best practice is to NEVER respond to any email that claims to be from ebay or paypal even if it does have your name in it, knows your dog's name, what kind of car you drive or where you live. I only respond to ebay and paypal messages at the source, that being either ebay's or paypal's website. If you never respond to a email the phishers will never get you.
Just another white mouse in the ebay maze looking for some cheese. --- Mike
posted on January 23, 2006 08:42:44 AM
It's a spoof. I have received that exact email many times. Mouse over the link shown. It will reveal an entirely different email address, usually in Germany or the U.K. If Ebay suspects fraud in an account, they will freeze it in a second. They sure won't give you 48 hours advance notice.
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posted on January 23, 2006 10:06:45 AM
Obviously the sender does not speak English as his first language "combat fraud from our community" is one example. Also the word information is used in the plural - not something that that if done in English. Except for coining the word "functionality", Ebay's e-mails are clear, concise and gramatically correct.
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