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[Link1110]

I got this email from "EBay," not sure if its real, I signed in by manually going to ebay.com, but couldnt find anything relating to this. Is it a spoof?

Security Service Notification
Dear Customer ,

For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please use the link below and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 24 hours, after this period your account will be terminated. .
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.

edit: Just found that the pics in the email are hosted at http://pics.ebaystatic.com/

 

[ManaByte]

Scam.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

lol

 

[Jeffahn]

Give me your details and I'll make sure they're updated.

...

 

[themadcowtipper]

It's a Trap!

 

[fart]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

this is actually a really big money maker for certain types (i hear a lot of romanians are into these schemes specifically), and the sophistication of the avg attempt has been steadily rising.

 

[xsarien]

If you need to ask, it's probably a scam.

 

[ChrisReid]

Obvious scam.

 

[stormer]

idiot

 

[Phoenix]

Ebay, your bank, your credit card company, etc. is about as likely to send you email as President Bush.

NO ONE send official notices via email.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Ebay, your bank, your credit card company, etc. is about as likely to send you email as President Bush.

NO ONE send official notices via email.

So this email I got from President Bush about this all natural penis enhancement is fake...

 

[teruterubozu]

If you go to "My Ebay" in Ebay it will show you exactly what e-mails have been sent to you by Ebay in the My Messages Inbox. Anything else is bogus.

 

[fse]

Yea, I get the same things. You did the right thing by asking if you weren't sure.

 

[Barnimal]

am i the only one who responds "fuck you and your mother" to those phishing emails? i guess some are pointed back to ebay because one time i got a response from customer service with something like "oh...well i guess you got a fraudulant scam email...please report these to fraud@ebay.com" or some crap :lol

 

[eLGee]

am i the only one who responds "fuck you and your mother" to those phishing emails? i guess some are pointed back to ebay because one time i got a response from customer service with something like "oh...well i guess you got a fraudulant scam email...please report these to fraud@ebay.com" or some crap :lol

:lol
Unfortunate, but oh so funny.

 

[Wario64]

:lol

 

[SickBoy]

am i the only one who responds "fuck you and your mother" to those phishing emails? i guess some are pointed back to ebay because one time i got a response from customer service with something like "oh...well i guess you got a fraudulant scam email...please report these to fraud@ebay.com" or some crap :lol

Well most of the time, they'll come with an "EBay.com" address, even if the host the email originated from is hotnigerianmoneylaundering.biz

... so chances are if you've been replying to phishing emails, you're actually contacting fake email addresses or genuine addresses that aren't actually where the mail was sent from.

 

[Nikashi]

The correct way to report a 'spoof' or fake email is to forward it to this address:

spoof@ebay.com


Don't reply to any, as they use legitimate eBay email addresses in the 'Reply to' line, so it will go to eBay.

I also have a link detailing how to identify the fakes:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/isgw-account-theft-spoof.html


</eBay CSR>

 

[ChennehCis]

I know for a fact that paypal will ADDRESS you by your name (real name from account) when they email you. All scam emails will say "Dear PayPal User," or "Dear Customer".

Seeing as eBay also own paypal, I'm pretty sure eBay uses this technique as well.