Those emails are call "phishing scams" and should not only be reported to ebay,
but to spamcop as well (with complete headers.)

Doing an IP trace of those emails one discovers none of them actually come from
ebay, but from offshore, usually Russia, or Australia.

The same type of scam supposedly from Citigroup and Bank of America are in wide
circulation as well.

Of course the links are obfuscated and are not real ebay links.

The advice is to never respond to any "account verification" type emails,
especially ones that ask for personal information.

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ian Skinner
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 5:41 PM
  Subject: RE: Watch out for fake eBay account update email

  I noticed a message exactly like that in my spam filter.  I was wondering how
they could use a legitimate looking domain name?

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