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Old 09-16-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Dear valued eBay member,
It has come to our attention, that your eBay Billing Information records are out of date. This requires you to verify your Account and Billing Information. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records, you will not run into any future problems with eBay's online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account termination, cancelation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems. Therefore we encourage you to update your records within 24 hours.
Please click here to update your account records.


eBay Update Center


Thank you for your time!
Stephen Dennis,
eBay Billing Department team.

As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
Anytime anyone gets an email like this from ebay, a bank, paypal, etc, don't worry about clicking on the link in the email. Go to the site itself in your web browser and look for the info listed in the email. If you can't find it on the site, its likely a scam.

This one actually shows a fairly realistic link to ebay, but the site shows the ip address and not the domain name in the web browser. Several links on this email and the scam site actually go to ebay to make it look legitimate.
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Old 09-16-2006   #2 (permalink)
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Old 09-16-2006   #3 (permalink)
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Re: New ebay scam
make sure you report scams and stuff like that to ebays protection force or what ever they call it.
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Re: New ebay scam
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Anytime anyone gets an email like this from ebay, a bank, paypal, etc, don't worry about clicking on the link in the email. Go to the site itself in your web browser and look for the info listed in the email. If you can't find it on the site, its likely a scam.

This one actually shows a fairly realistic link to ebay, but the site shows the ip address and not the domain name in the web browser. Several links on this email and the scam site actually go to ebay to make it look legitimate.
thanks, Oldman. Got one something like this not too long ago, and reported it to Ebay. The representative said everything that you stated above, but also added that if Ebay contacted a customer, they do so by name ......so he said never answer anything from Ebay that doesn't say Dear "insert your account name here."
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I have been getting these type emails for a long time. I hardly ever click a link in any email, especially if is from something that metions an account. I might open the link if I know in advance they are sending me the link.
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Basic rule of thumb is don't click on a link or open an email from someone you don't know, and 99.9% of all companies online tell you that they will never for specific information through email. Like Ranger said... go to the website -- open your browser (another window if you have web-based email like hotmail or gmail, etc) and go to their site -- try to find the information there. If nothing -- delete the email without even opening it.

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We've been getting a lot of "Second Chance" emails from "Ebay". People have been watching us bidding on Alabama tickets and will start offering us the second chance to buy them. On one auction we had 5 different people contact us telling us they were the seller of the tickets. We've reported all these false emails to Ebay. If you get another email forward it to spoof@ebay.com
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Ebay will put a copy of ANY message they send you on your "My Ebay" page. If the message is not on there, it is not from ebay.
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I got an email just like this last week. Fortunately I contacted ebay before I did anything with it and found out that it was a fraud. You have to be really careful anymore. Sad isn't it.
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