Be very careful of this ebay email

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Posted By: TBob

It comes with the official ebay header and logo:



eBay Safeharbor Department Notice

Fraud Alert ID : 00626654


Dear eBay member,

You have received this email because you or someone else had used your identity to make false purchases on eBay. For security reasons, we are required to open an investigation on this matter. We treat online fraud seriously and all cases which cannot be resolved between eBay and the other involved party are forwarded for further investigations to the proper authorities. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your personal information against the eBay account registration data we have on file by following the link below.

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay&user=14626654

Please save this fraud alert id for your reference.

When submitting sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.

Please Note - If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, we will assume this account is fraudulent and it will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.

We apreciate your support and understading, 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 and can not be replied to.

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It's a scam!

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Posted By: scott

I received this twice. As soon as you
see them asking for your account info
and your email info you know its a scam.
Scary stuff!

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Posted By: T206Collector

If you report it to ebay, they will tell you so. I think you can just forward any suspicious ebay e-mails to "spoof@ebay.com" and they will get back to you very quickly about whether or not the e-mail you're concerned about is bogus.

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

Just the latest in a long line of email scams.

http://www.antiphishing.org/ - this site maintains a list of these emails.

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Posted By: Jason

They will never contact you and ask for your logon and account information. (Why would they? They already have it.)

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Posted By: shoo

Its happened to me 4 times in the past month I reported it to ebay they were all scams

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Posted By: Gary B.

the funny thing is, i got this by e-mail a couple of times, but NOT to the e-mail address i use for ebay! they actually think i would get an e-mail at an account i don't use for ebay and then give them my login info???

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Posted By: stevek

Among other things, these thieves use the information that is provided them to hijack an ebay account. The unsuspecting ebay account holder will windup auctioning off on ebay a one day auction for a complete PSA graded set of T206's and not even realise it. When it comes time for payment from the bidder/s, the thief has them send the money to a different address (usually a type of money transfer service which will then transfer the money overseas) and of course the bidders will never see their money again. Then the ebay negs, etc., start coming in to the real ebay account holder. Ebay does inform people about these scams, but they should do so more vehemently.