towerrat 0 #1 August 28, 2004 ***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice*** eBay Fraud Mediation Request Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 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://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00937614 . 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. Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Copyright © 2004 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay is located at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125. ---------------------------------------------------------- This is a message I got in my e-mail. I don't know how to tell if it's real or not. I have never used this eBay account, and don't know how to respond to this. Should I contact someone at eBay, or just let the 48 hours pass so the account will close? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #2 August 28, 2004 QuoteYou have recieved this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. Check "My Ebay". See any bids? Probably not. I got this email a long time ago. Blew it off, and nothing ever came of it. Chances are that link you see up there is not really when the click will send you. Hover over that link and usually in the lower left corner of the window you'll see where the link really goes. You will probably see and ip address instead of a web address.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #3 August 28, 2004 It's a scam. Send it to the e-bay alert address and they will give you a difinitive answer in about 20-30 mins if not sooner. I got one like that awhile back and sent it in to them and it came back as a scam. Don't click on any of the links or go to any of the addresses in the e-mail."It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bodyflight.Net 0 #4 August 28, 2004 If you don't use this ebay account then you shouldn't worry.. BUT I would so as Rev suggests.. login to your ebay account online, and check everything out. Contact ebay from the website, not through this email.. and let them know that way. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #5 August 28, 2004 Ignore it. http://www.authentium.com/threats/scams.cfmOwned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #6 August 28, 2004 It's a scam. Ebay will never send you an email saying you need to login to do anything.This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #7 August 28, 2004 I get a lot of these. The best thing to do is to display the full headers in the message and then forward it to spoof@ebay.com. Ebay will reply to confirm that it was not a message sent from them. (You can usually tell this by looking at the full headers too - you will see that the message originated from somewhere other than an ebay server.) This will also help them to track whoever sent you the fraudulent message. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
towerrat 0 #8 August 28, 2004 thanks so much everyone. Does anyone know what the point is? If I were to follow the link would I get a virus, or what?Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #9 August 28, 2004 I believe most of those emails are fishing for personal information (ebay password, etc.). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #10 August 28, 2004 once you login, they'll get your account information, and then use your account to screw people over. (ie: sell laptops, collect money, send nothing.)This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
