Another eBay Email: Fraud or Legitimate?


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I receieved this email today, and am a bit worried. Unlike the other email, this one states that it's from ebay. Here's the header information:

Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown[210.23.201.242](misconfigured sender))

          by sccrmxc16.comcast.net (sccrmxc16) with ESMTP

          id <20040629035014s1600pug3ve>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:50:25 +0000

X-Originating-IP: [210.23.201.242]

Received: (from root@localhost)

by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i5T4sIR16796;

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:54:18 +0800

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:54:18 +0800

Message-Id: <200406290454.i5T4sIR16796@localhost.localdomain>

From: aw-confirm@ebay.com

Reply-to: desertlover.1@juno.com

Subject: ***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

To: [xxxxxxxx]@comcast.net

Content-type: text/html

Email Content:

***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

Fraud Alert ID : 00626654

You have received this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids on eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To help speed up this process, you are require to verify your eBay account by following the link below.

http://[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Please save this fraud alert id for your reference

Please Note - If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be cancelled. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.

We apreciate your support and understading, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)

eBay Inc.

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification mail sent to this address cannot answered

Copyright 2004 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. is located at Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125

I have never done anything wrong with my ebay account.

So is this a fraud?

Thanks!

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DAm..lol..If you didn't do anything bad then you dont have to worry about anything. But that sucks because thats just another stupid thing you have to think about..

Maybe you lend you account to someone one day and they spread it to everyone?

Think of everything you did with this accound because it's better to have a clear mind.

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No one except my family knows the password. And we have never talked about our ebay account. Also, we haven't bid on anything in a long time.. only using it to sell.

But thanks; i'm relieved. I hate these damn fraud emails.

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Definatly a fraud. If you want to check just to be sure, go to the Ebay website and find a contact email to verify if it's true or not.

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id log in to ebay and just check your account information even maybe chaning your password but i would NOT click the link in the email

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Well, I know someone who had a situation you could say was similar to his, he had Windows 98 on his machine and he always got online just to check his mail and do some other stuff and then his email account was hacked and his password was changed and come to find out, somehow he logged while he submitted his password and got his info..

So from what im saying you could have a logger on your machine that is logging and sending your passwords you type to people. Just to be sure, would do a spyware/adware check and make sure firewall is open. Hopefully like the others have said, its fraud and you wont have to worry about it.

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It's definitely a fraudulant email, despite looking "real" with the appropirate logos and formatting. I got one like that last week, I reported it to eBay and they said my account was not in breach of any rules.

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