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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:34 PM
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Got this last night

From : adv-teams@ebay.com

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.
Has proper ebay logo's (no attachment ones)

WTF?????? Is this legit or scam?
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:49 PM
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sounds like a scam

just email ebay from there site and give them that link.

that will give yoiu half a clue...

also its from ebay.com rather than ebay.co.uk (which is the uk version) so id say seems dodgier
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:51 PM
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scgi.bay.com

its a scam one mate
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:52 PM
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There was a link up the other day weren't there for reporting ebay scams.... Anyone know what it was?
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:53 PM
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Scam
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:54 PM
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Thank fook I asked rather than click the link!

Thanks fella's
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:54 PM
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have ya clicked on the link yet ?
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:56 PM
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No
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by b19bal
have ya clicked on the link yet ?
It will no doubt come up with a dud link. They're testing the ground
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 12:13 AM
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my bro had the same one...dont do it. he reported it.
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 06:53 AM
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SCAM
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 07:24 AM
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scam as ebay never ask for your stuff to be updated!!!

W@NKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 07:51 AM
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I say this EVERY time.......

If ANY email (Ebay or anyone else) ever ask for personal info to be verified, it is a scam EVERYTIME!!!!!!!!
No matter how legit it looks, just ignore it.
Also, if it is genuine, they will address you by name, not "dear ebay member"
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 07:57 AM
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forward it to spoof@ebay.co.uk
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 07:59 AM
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i agree, ive been done by a similar e.mail, took months to get back in control of my account. BUT the fact being EBAY NEVER ask for personal info. thats what they say, they dont need too. so if they ask for anything personal e.g. login name password its a scam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by b19bal
scgi.bay.com

its a scam one mate
Have a look here;

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confide...eft-spoof.html

Scroll down and it gives you genuine sign in URLS for ebay....

In the international section it has "https://scgi.ebay.com/..."

Now the only difference between the one in my email and the one in ebays help page is mine is "http://" and ebay says it should be "https://"

Hmmmm
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 03:10 PM
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I havent read all replies, but i what i will say is, watch yourself dude. Theres alot of scamming going around in eBay at the moment, my dad got a similar email the other day and the silly fucker replied...we ended up with a hacked computer!
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 03:23 PM
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Thrush, if theres a real problem, they send you a letter in the post also

I had a letter last week
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 04:37 PM
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My g/friend got this e-mail from e-bay and she didn't click on the link, now she can't access her e-bay account? wtf?
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