DanRSturbo

Just received this e-mail

***Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice***




You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.


https://signin.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBay...nIn&UsingSSL=1
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields)


Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and 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 appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.

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Now, the fact that it starts the URL with https should alert you straight away.

Secondly, if you go to the link, and view the source, this is what you will find that it now looks similar to e-bay, it didn't when I 1st looked at it

Be careful, I have e-mailed the e-mail addy eBay@reply3.ebay.com to see what the score is, and await the reply

DanRSturbo

When I first went to the site, I viewed the source code of it, and there was only very basic html comprising of a few words. When you view the source of e-bay's sign in page, there is lot's more, which I think, the scammer has just added

jayRS

i have loads of theseb4, just delite them , i have contacted ebay over it and the NEVER send any emails out likt that.

beware with paypal too, there are fake ones going about asking the same for ya paypal account, again i contacted them and guess what, it was all bollocks as they dont send emails like that out, be on your gaurd peeps.

richm

Ebay, Paypal, Banks etc.. will never request sensitive data via email invitation, so just delete and ignore them..

DanRSturbo

I just got this from e-bay

Just got this from E-bay

Hello,

Thank you for contacting eBay about an E-Mail you received that appears
as though it is an authentic E-Mail from eBay. We will investigate this
situation immediately.

Please be advised that there have been cases where people have attempted
to gain access to an eBay member's personal information by sending
"spoof" E-Mails. Spoof E-Mails intentionally give the false impression
that they have been sent by eBay to solicit people to transmit their
account information.

Based on your inquiry to eBay, the E-Mail you received was likely to be
a spoof. If you entered personal information such as your password, or
credit card numbers into a web site based on a request from a spoofed
email, you need to take immediate action to protect your identity. For
information on spoof emails and what action you need to take if you have
entered in your personal information, we strongly encourage you to read
our spoof tutorial:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/education/spooftutorial/


If somebody else but you should know your eBay password, please change
it immediately:

To change your password, please follow the steps below:

1. Click on the "site map" link located at the top of any eBay page
2. On the Site Map, scroll through the "Services" section
3. Locate "Registration"
4. Click on the "I forgot my password" link and follow the
instructions on that page.

Keep in mind the spoof@ebay.co.uk email address is reserved for handling
reports of attempts to impersonate eBay. In order to dedicate resources
to investigating this type of situation, please submit any other
questions or concerns through our Help System, which can be accessed by
clicking on the Help button at the top of any eBay page.

***********************
NEW Account Guard!
Account Guard is a new eBay Toolbar feature that enables you to protect
your eBay account information by warning you when you are on a
potentially fraudulent (spoof) Web site. The Account Guard feature also
enables you to report a spoof Web site. Once a site has been verified by
eBay to be fraudulent, that information will automatically be
distributed to all other eBay Toolbar users, warning them about the
spoof Web site.

For more information about the New Account Guard please click on the
following link:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confide...unt-guard.html
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received.

We appreciate your efforts in helping keep eBay a safe online
marketplace.

Regards,

eBay EU Trust and Safety