3800 Ebay fraud email today

[dole21]

eBay Fraud Investigation

You have received this email because you or someone attempted to login more than 10 times into your account with a wrong password. 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 CLOSEOUT ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS.

Fraud Alert ID CODE:XXXXX(I took the number out)

(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 Power Safe account registration informations :

LINK

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.

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

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what do ya think?

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[BumpinGTP]

call and make sure before you give out your password or anything

 

[horist]

most likely it's a scam.... first thing it prolly asks you to do is to logon.. as soon as you do the scammer has your username and password

Ebay always ask that when you log on you start at http://www.ebay.com/ and logon that way... no other way... ebay won't send an email to you outta the blue asking if you're legit...

 

[RebelGTP]

bingo, if you were to check ANY links that you receive in emails like that you would most likely see that they are obfuscated or contain javascript or a bunch of repeating %20%20 (which are translated as spaces) then it has the real link you are going to (usually just an IP address)... I have investigated ebay scam emails (paypal, citibank, and usbank as well for that matter) pretty thoroughly...

I would log in as normal to your ebay account (using http://www.ebay.com/ and see if any error messages come up... with the way logins are handled nowadays, I am sure that they can flag your account to go to a verification page or at least let you know about the attempts when you login so that you can change your account password again...

ALWAYS follow the recommendations of security experts pertaining to passwords:

your password should be comprised of both letters and numbers and not be able to be easily guessed... that means not using part of your sign-in name or the most easily guessed passwords (sex, god, password, etc.)

the password should be long... I frequently use passwords of 11 or more characters...

 

[mybluegtp]

Never Mind.

 

[Dreamcat78]

i did too fredo ...and I filed for my $50 today..cuz i have gotten scammed before!

 

[mybluegtp]

Originally posted by Dreamcat78@Jul 28 2004, 09:57 AM
i did too fredo ...and I filed for my $50 today..cuz i have gotten scammed before!

so this is legit?

 

[Dreamcat78]

yeah did you read all that crap LOL i went to the link and followed the directions and filed a short claims notice for $50 in return..they owe me more but oh well LOL

 

[mybluegtp]

I started reading it and then started to jump some paragraphs and looked for "how to get your money" section. LOL. So i'll fill the short claims then. Thanks Lisa.

 

[Mike K]

Fake.

Not only is this type of email fake (you'll get the same with a Paypal header), but all of eBay's security emails are signed "safe harbor". Watch out because some of the scammers know that also.

 

[Dreamcat78]

i didnt give them any account info so whats the harm..just my address which i am moving in 2 months so what can they do?

 

[mybluegtp]

yea no account, username, or password was given so we'll see what happens..

 

[whitecav_79]

They just had this posted in MSN about two days ago...the new virus has attacked EBAY and YAHOO and another internet service, and they are sending emails like that to the subscriber, and then from there, they go into your hard drive and grab information and etc....

I think it is fake(the email you received) but I am not sure this is for the same thing.

 

[blitzu]

Fake.


Send a copy of the email to Ebay's customer service and ask them first what is the deal. They will send you back a email telling you it is fake. They will never send you a email saying you will be suspended, and that they need you to verify your account.

It is BS.

 

[plmrass]

Originally posted by whitecav_79@Jul 28 2004, 01:28 PM
They just had this posted in MSN about two days ago...the new virus has attacked EBAY and YAHOO and another internet service, and they are sending emails like that to the subscriber, and then from there, they go into your hard drive and grab information and etc....

I think it is fake(the email you received) but I am not sure this is for the same thing.

I THOUGHT YOU LEFT ALREADY??????? h34r: h34r: