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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 05:34 PM
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 05:37 PM
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Definitely fraud. Any legitimate emails from eBay or Paypal would have your name at the top (i.e. is personal to you) - that's the best way to tell if they are real or not.

We get a couple of these fake ones per week Just ignore them.
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 05:37 PM
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its a scam - don't do it
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 09:47 PM
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Cheers folks thought as much...
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 11:15 PM
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i think its an offical ebay link, check out the security certificate on the page, also do a bit of looking around at the links etc. its genuine
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 11:37 PM
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Right Click > Delete.

Embedded under that link will be another scam site. Cleverly done with HTML coding to look genuine. Just bin it
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 11:51 PM
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Well you'll know for sure in 72 hours
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 11:58 PM
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forward the email to spoof@ebay.com
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Old Jan 6, 2005 | 07:49 AM
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100% fake, e bay NEVER send e mails asking for personal information, had the same thing myself some time ago
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Old Jan 6, 2005 | 08:13 AM
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Basically ANY e-mail like that IS a scam. No company will ever ask you for any personal details NOR will they put any form of web links in an e-mail they will just as you to login as normal to the site.
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Old Jan 6, 2005 | 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by puntoturbo
i think its an offical ebay link, check out the security certificate on the page, also do a bit of looking around at the links etc. its genuine
They just link to the genuine pages on ebay from their dodgy one.
You just fell for exactly what they want you to!
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Old Jan 6, 2005 | 09:02 AM
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I can't believe there are still people falling for these it may look quite clever but if your account had been "compromised" why would ebay ask u to log in?

Also, the english is terrible, "informations??", it's scammers wanting to log in as u so they can look like a genuine bidder.

Delete Delete Delete!!
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Old Jan 9, 2005 | 05:36 PM
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Sent it to spoof@ebay.com got a reply its a fake alright...
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Old Jan 9, 2005 | 06:19 PM
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