"ebay verification" email

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Posted By: petecld 

Has anyone else gotten an email, supposedly from ebay, titled "ebay verification"?

What makes me suspicious is that the mail is dated 11/11/02 ot 6:14am.

Nice trick considring it's still Nov. 10th where I am.

I have no intention of responding. Just wondering if anyone else got one?

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Posted By: jay behrens

no such email here, but the date stamp would indicate possibly someone in the Far East sent the email.

Jay

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Posted By: Jeff S

several people had gotten a fake e-mail. it had a couple instances of shaky grammar, but was otherwise nearly identical to a letter safeharbor sends out when it appears your contact info is wrong. (I know because I got one of the real ones when we were last discussing this.)

I think we figured out that whoever is sending this out was trying to steal user id/ password info -- i guess when responding to these things, it's important to pay attention to the exact top-tier URL you're directed to.

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Posted By: David

The key is to never send passwords or similar personal info through the email (ebay or paypal would never request it that way) and that a ebay or PayPal link would have a relevent web address (www.paypal.com/etc or www.ebay.com/etc).

I get a chuckle when I get email ads from 'big powerful respected century old banks', and the email is sent from a hotmail address.

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Posted By: David

Even through emails, you can hear an accent. I will occasionally get emails where, even if the grammar and spelling is correct, you can tell the person is not an American.

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Posted By: TBob

It was from sportsLV@bellsouth.net and the subject was "I think i love you" when you opened the email it was just a link which said "click me."
I didn't fall off the watermelon truck yesterday...

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Posted By: B C Daniels

Your states native son did!!!!!