Barry, It IS a scam. I saw a warning while listing an item for sale on eBay that people who use their e-mail addresses as their I.D. are being targeted and you should report the e-mail you've received to [EMAIL PROTECTED] eBay NEVER asks for private information via e-mail like this. It's probably an attempt at identity theft, so others can ue your good name to sell bogus items.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:13 AM Subject: eBay scam or not? Today is the second time I have received an email supposedly from eBay, official looking and everything asking me to verify my account. The first I ignored because it was asking for credit card info, which I never gave them and as far as I can remember, you dont need it to register as a buyer it said that if I didnt verify within 24 (seemed a litly timely sinc what if I dont reed my emai every day) hours that my account would be deleted of course it wasnt but I just got another one, this one also says basically the same thing, very offical looking with the ebay logo, even secure, but the link on this one gives me a 404 not found error. Now I dont mind re-verifying, but I am not sure why I would need to. However if this is a scam to get info what should on do. Any way to insure that this is legit?? Another thing that makes me suspect is the return address. The first way to ebaysomething @ aol.com and this one is ebay [EMAIL PROTECTED] They appear to be addressed to only me not a whole list of others on the message. Has anybody else received these?? Is this legit?? /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
