It'll be fake...They'd never ask for card information by an email like that. If they do suspend your account don't worry about it. Just explain that you didn't reply as you thought it was a scam and that you sent an email querying it.
Question regarding ebay fraud.
Hi guys I received this email from "eBay". I am unsure whether it is fake or not.
***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***
eBay Fraud Mediation Request
Date: Saturday, 14 May 2005
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 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 account registration informations:
scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00937614
My main concerns are that:
a) We haven't made any bids recently, except for 1 which has already been paid for.
b) We have several cards registered to that account and unsure which card to enter, as it seems we have once chance to enter our valid details.
c) Our normal ebay emails go to a different account, although paypal go to that account.
d) It says only 48 hours to reply before my account is suspended - which to me seems incredibly suspicious.
I think it is fake, I have emailed ebay but they take 48 hours to reply. Has anyone else received similar mails?
***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***
eBay Fraud Mediation Request
Date: Saturday, 14 May 2005
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 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 account registration informations:
scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00937614
My main concerns are that:
a) We haven't made any bids recently, except for 1 which has already been paid for.
b) We have several cards registered to that account and unsure which card to enter, as it seems we have once chance to enter our valid details.
c) Our normal ebay emails go to a different account, although paypal go to that account.
d) It says only 48 hours to reply before my account is suspended - which to me seems incredibly suspicious.
I think it is fake, I have emailed ebay but they take 48 hours to reply. Has anyone else received similar mails?
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Anything with a link to click regarding ebay asking you to "click here" to fix profile details is fake. I delete any of these regardless. The only ebay emails I pay attention to are for cheap listing days, and even then I rarely click on a link.
As far as I'm aware, ebay never ask you to click links to "fix things" This is especially dodgy as many of them go to spoofed websites designed to mimic the ebay layout. Genuine emails would ask you to log onto ebay yourself in your usual manner ie you would type www.ebay.co.uk in the address bar (not via a link) The same applies to ANYTHING paypal related (as this is the more important)
Even if the link says www.ebay.com ... make sure you hover on it and often you will see down the bottom left of your screen that it is pointing to a completely fake address. Some of this don't look so fake, but they aren't necessarily a real ebay or paypal page
In fact as I type this I've found the info via ebay you need to read.
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/isgw-account-theft-spoof.html
This lists the pages that are real.
(Edited by Samphirette 16/05/2005 23:42)
As far as I'm aware, ebay never ask you to click links to "fix things" This is especially dodgy as many of them go to spoofed websites designed to mimic the ebay layout. Genuine emails would ask you to log onto ebay yourself in your usual manner ie you would type www.ebay.co.uk in the address bar (not via a link) The same applies to ANYTHING paypal related (as this is the more important)
Even if the link says www.ebay.com ... make sure you hover on it and often you will see down the bottom left of your screen that it is pointing to a completely fake address. Some of this don't look so fake, but they aren't necessarily a real ebay or paypal page
In fact as I type this I've found the info via ebay you need to read.
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/isgw-account-theft-spoof.html
This lists the pages that are real.
(Edited by Samphirette 16/05/2005 23:42)
Thank god I posted this cos I was just about to put the card details in! The page looked genuine enough.
i get tons of these they are so damned annoying but easy to spot, genuine emails start with Dear What-ever-your-id-name. if they dont i automatically send them to spoof@ebay.com i've not once recieved an email back confirming they were real.
Definitely fake.
All emails from ebay are sent to you addressed to your user name (eg Dear Lizzieslayer rather than dear ebay member).
They rarely ask you to click on the link. Rather they ask you to log in via ebay and go to the correct page.
As has been said hovering over the link is a good way of telling.
Beware! There are similar fakes from Paypal around! I have had 2 already today!
All emails from ebay are sent to you addressed to your user name (eg Dear Lizzieslayer rather than dear ebay member).
They rarely ask you to click on the link. Rather they ask you to log in via ebay and go to the correct page.
As has been said hovering over the link is a good way of telling.
Beware! There are similar fakes from Paypal around! I have had 2 already today!