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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 03:20 PM
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Does this sound genuine to you lot:




***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

Fraud Alert ID : 00626654


You have received this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids on eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To help speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay&user=00626654

Please save this fraud alert id for your reference

Please Note - If your account information are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and it will be cancelled. 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 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 and it cannot be replied to

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. which is located on Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125

It's got the proper E-Bay logo etc on tops of page,but its asking for all my card details including my pin number!!!!

Thought you are never supposed to tell any1 your pin?

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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 03:21 PM
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SCAM
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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 03:25 PM
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scam, if you look at the address they sent you it has http://Scgi, ebay only has the http://cgi, and i imagine it would come from ebay.co.uk instaed of ebay.com
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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 03:36 PM
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Thanks guys
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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 03:44 PM
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Just had confirmation from e-bay it is a spoof!

Wankers.

Keep your eyes open for these peeps

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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 04:27 PM
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Aye had it too wankers
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Old Jul 22, 2004 | 09:27 PM
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Had this too, asking me to reconfirm my credit card details on a link that looked very much like the ebay one, but was not a secure site like the real one
so \i reported it to ebay
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just had the same mail as well don`t reply to any e mails off ebay if they want to tell you something it would pop up when sighing in biddidng selling etc..

Fooking scam coonts





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***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

Fraud Alert ID : 00626654


You have received this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids on eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To help speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay&user=00626654

Please save this fraud alert id for your reference

Please Note - If your account information are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and it will be cancelled. 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 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 and it cannot be replied to

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. which is located on Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125





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