Fraud or Legitimate? Concerning eBay email


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I just receieved an email from:

aw-confirm@ebay.com

They said that my personal information is incomplete or has changed and is requesting me to give them my name, address, ebay passwords, credit card number, and everything else. There's blanks for me to fill in in the email. I'm afraid to do this. They referred to me as "ebay user." Shouldn't they refer to me by using my name?

Does this look legitimate, or is it a fraud?

Thanks.

--EDIT--

They threaten to close my account if I don't do it.

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Fraud. They will never ask for information by email or IM.

Edit- Infact I'd email ebay customer support and ask how they want to procede. They may want you to give them the header of the message and the source.

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Dont do it. Find a 1-800 number on ebay and call...

Generally speaking....they NEVER ask for that kind of information in an unsolicited email.

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actually they might ask for such info, but they will never threaten to kill your account becuase of that.

post full header from that email msg

just to be sure, manually go to ebay and update your account info.

DON'T CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN THE EMAIL

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That's not the header.

To see the header in OE right click the message and choose properties, then choose the details tab. All the info in the box is the header.

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Received: from smtp.excite.com (nat26.excitenetwork.com[63.236.75.74](untrusted sender))

by rwcrmxc18.comcast.net (rwcrmxc18) with ESMTP

id <20040618213510r1800rpk51e>; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:35:10 +0000

X-Originating-IP: [63.236.75.74]

Received: from produse_no3@excite.com (dsl-213-023-152-143.arcor-ip.net [213.23.152.143])

by smtp.excite.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B223619144

for <.............@comcast.net>; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:35:02 -0400 (EDT)

Reply-To: "aw-confirm@ebay.com" <awconfirm@ebay.com>

From: "aw-confirm@ebay.com" <aw-confirm@ebay.com>

To: <..............@comcast.net>

Subject: eBay (SafeHarbor) TKO NOTICE: Please verify your identity

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:35:37 +0200

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/html;

charset="us-ascii"

X-Priority: 3

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106

Message-Id: <20040618213502.B223619144@smtp.excite.com>

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Received: from produse_no3@excite.com (dsl-213-023-152-143.arcor-ip.net [213.23.152.143])

They wouldnt mal from excite they would mail from ebay

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Very smart. Don't ever fall for that old "we need your password, credit card number..etc" trick. A bunch of idiots your dealing with and I doubt your account will get deleted.

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forward any of that stuff to spoof@ebay.com. there are also paypal scams...forward them to spoof@paypal.com

i've been getting a lot of emails from usbank concerning my acct and how they need info...i don't even have an acct with them :rolleyes:

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