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Attempts to Steal Your Ebay Information! Warning!

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FlyingDonut

FlyingDonut

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If you get this email, please note that it is a fraud and an attempt to steal your identity, according to the eBay Powersellers people (I'm a Silver now, who knew?)

 

Dear eBay User,

 

During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.

 

As a result, your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below :

 

https://scgiebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation

 

Regards,

eBay

 

 

***Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A

Response***

 

...lets be careful out there!

 

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clicking the link by itself it totally harmless (the site is actually blown away- but it would have been harmless before as well). the danger with this scam is actually entering your information on the page and submitting the form believing that it's an ebay page.

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FlyingDonut

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That's this one:

 

 

 

 

Dear PayPal Customer

 

 

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

 

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

 

Please confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

 

document.write("

"); Email Address:

Password:

 

 

 

 

This notification expires November 20, 2002

 

 

Thanks for using PayPal!

 

 

This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

 

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

 

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

 

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Donut,

Thanks for the repeat heads-up!!

 

Whoever posted this about a month ago helped me out - I subsequently received this fraudulent e-mail 5 times in 2 weeks!

 

Beware.....

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Gorgo

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I received this e-mail (I'm not a power-seller) and I forwarded it to customer support over at E-Bay and they jumped right on it. The actual link I received was an invalid site. This was about three to four weeks ago.

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