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76summerwind cape may court house, NJ(Zone 6a) Feb 11, 2003

Anyone receiving mail from E-Bay about your I.D.?

Received an e-mail from E-Bay.. So they say, asking me to change my name and password!

I'm trying to get in touch with E-Bay now.
sandy

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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) Feb 11, 2003

I've received nothing of that sort from eBay. I would look very closely at the headers of that e-mail to be certain where it originated. Also, look closely at any link they give you. It sounds very suspicious.

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motts1 south central, WI(Zone 5a) Feb 11, 2003

From what I understand, some "hackers" are contacting eBay users,and doing some ripping off; I underscore what GW said, I would be very careful.

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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) Feb 11, 2003

How timely...I just read PC World's Steve Bass' column in an e-mail and this is one thing he had to say:

A Week of Strange E-Mail

It gets worse: In less than week, I received two e-mail come-ons, both with links to marvelous reproductions of real sites.

The first message was allegedly from EBay asking me to reenter my password and credit card info. The message went on to say,

"If you think you have received this e-mail as an error, please visit our website and fill out the neccesary [sic] information. That way we can make sure that everything is up to date! Again here is the link to our website.

Ebay Billing Center
Rep ID. 32A"

The impersonator provided a convenient link to a page that looked amazingly real:
http://snurl.com/ebayscam

EBay's Kevin Pursglove said, "We are aware of these so called 'spoof' Web sites. Apparently, they are popping up throughout the Web. The people behind these spoof sites attempt to collect personal information such as bank account or credit card numbers from Web users." He went on to say that EBay "frequently posts announcements on the EBay site to alert the EBay community about this practice, including alerts in administrative e-mails."

BTW, some EBay swindlers get nailed. Take a sec and read how one guy went after a rip-off artist. "Victim Busts Alleged EBay Swindler" is a good story and a quick read:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108055,tk,sbx,00.asp

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76summerwind cape may court house, NJ(Zone 6a) Feb 11, 2003

How awful to think some one would do such terrible thing's.
Not only this but everything else that's going on in this world.

I'm grateful now that I never give E-Bay my credit card numbers.

I do buy a few thing's from them(cameras mostly) but, I pay buy P.O. money orders.

Glad I posted it and thanks for the reply.
Wonder why E-Bay didn't have the problem on their site? I was in it last night.
My neighbor just called and said it was on the news!

Sandy

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