Apparently the Latest FleaBay Scam...
 

Got this in my old email, which BTW is not my fleaBay email:

--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:11:04
From:
To:
Cc:


Dear valued eBay member,
It has come to our attention that your eBay billing information records are
out of date . This requiers you to update your billing information with no
delay in order to avoid any future problems with eBay's online service.
Please click here to update your billing records.
Once you have updated your account records, your eBay session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal. However failure to update may
result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or
future billing problems.
Thank you for your time!
Marry Kimmel,
eBay Billing Department team.

Looks like they are getting a bit more professional, ie less mispelled words
etc.

Dave


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I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be lacking
in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the un-visited
link they sent along just in case.

bogus???

..................................
From: Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2003, 7:24am (MST+2) To:
Subject: Ebay Fraud Verification Process
=A0
Dear eBay user,
As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period
review of our member accounts.
You are requested to visit our site by following the link given below

Please fill in the required information.
This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk free
environment to run your auctions, and maintain the eBay Experience.
Thank you
Accounts Management
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
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owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc
=A0
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~AZ Rider~ wrote:
bogus???

Yep! I've received at least a dozen of those exact same annoying scams over
the past several months.

Larry

"~AZ Rider~" wrote in message

I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be
lacking in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the
un-visited link they sent along just in case.

bogus???

My experience has been that eBay and PP will both address their emails to
you by name. Also they will direct you to go to your "My eBay" page or PP
site to address any concern they might have with your account or to access
any promotion/deal they are offering.......... they normally do not embed a
link in their email for you to click on. If you get an email addressed to
"Dear eBay User", or "Dear PayPal user" etc, it will always be a scam.
Both eBay and PP know your name and will use it when sending you email. And
obviously they will not/can not send email to an account they don't have in
their files.

--
Ed Hendricks
ANA# R178621
eBay: edh.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:03:43 -0500, "Scottishmoney"
wrote:

Got this in my old email

snip

I got it too.

Reported it.

Deleted it.
Steve
Buy the book before the coin
don't forget to *READ* the book after you've bought it!
It doesn't do anything just sitting on the shelf

(remove ATTITUDE to replay via e-mail)

Yes. The misspellings are a giveaway--one of the major newspapers
reported on this scam, and commented on the irony that such a clever
ploy would be riddled with bad spelling and grammar. For the eBay
scam, you can forward the e-mail to and ask eBay to
authenticate it. Of maybe six I've forwarded, all have come back as
spoofs.

I've gotten similar e-mails from PayPal imposters, but PayPal doesn't
seem to have as simple a method to authenticate as their parent
company, eBay. There's purportedly a PayPal web page that permits
reporting, but at the time I last tried to use it, it led to a
circular series of links that yielded nothing but frustration.

--Chris S

bassin (~AZ Rider~) wrote:
I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be lacking
in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the un-visited
link they sent along just in case.

bogus???

.................................
From: Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2003, 7:24am (MST+2) To:
bassin Subject: Ebay Fraud Verification Process

Dear eBay user,
As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period
review of our member accounts.
You are requested to visit our site by following the link given below

Please fill in the required information.
This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk free
environment to run your auctions, and maintain the eBay Experience.
Thank you
Accounts Management
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
Copyright 2002 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

Announcements | Register | SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety) | Feedback Forum
| About eBay
Copyright 1995-2001 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective
owners.
Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User

You can report PayPal scams to


"Chris S" wrote in message =
om...
Yes. The misspellings are a giveaway--one of the major newspapers
reported on this scam, and commented on the irony that such a clever
ploy would be riddled with bad spelling and grammar. For the eBay
scam, you can forward the e-mail to and ask eBay to
authenticate it. Of maybe six I've forwarded, all have come back as
spoofs.
=20
I've gotten similar e-mails from PayPal imposters, but PayPal doesn't
seem to have as simple a method to authenticate as their parent
company, eBay. There's purportedly a PayPal web page that permits
reporting, but at the time I last tried to use it, it led to a
circular series of links that yielded nothing but frustration.
=20
--Chris S
=20
bassin (~AZ Rider~) wrote:
I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be =
lacking
in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the =
un-visited
link they sent along just in case.
=20
bogus???
=20
.................................
From: Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2003, 7:24am (MST+2) To:
bassin Subject: Ebay Fraud Verification Process=20
=20
Dear eBay user,=20
As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a =
period
review of our member accounts.=20
You are requested to visit our site by following the link given =
below=20
=20
Please fill in the required information.=20
This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk =
free
environment to run your auctions, and maintain the eBay Experience.=20
Thank you=20
Accounts Management=20
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.=20
Copyright 2002 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.=20
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their =
respective
owners.=20
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc
=20
Announcements | Register | SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety) | Feedback =
Forum
| About eBay=20
Copyright 1995-2001 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.=20
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their =
respective
owners.=20
Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User

Just to clarify a bit... It is my understanding that when you
"report" a spoof to either ebay or paypal, you don't actually say
anything in your forwarded stuff. Just be sure to forward the suspect
email WITH full headers, without any comment. HTH
Aram.
=====================================
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:32:20 GMT, "Bob Rosenberger"
wrote:

You can report PayPal scams to


"Chris S" wrote in message om...
Yes. The misspellings are a giveaway--one of the major newspapers
reported on this scam, and commented on the irony that such a clever
ploy would be riddled with bad spelling and grammar. For the eBay
scam, you can forward the e-mail to and ask eBay to
authenticate it. Of maybe six I've forwarded, all have come back as
spoofs.

I've gotten similar e-mails from PayPal imposters, but PayPal doesn't
seem to have as simple a method to authenticate as their parent
company, eBay. There's purportedly a PayPal web page that permits
reporting, but at the time I last tried to use it, it led to a
circular series of links that yielded nothing but frustration.

--Chris S

bassin (~AZ Rider~) wrote:
I received something similar this morning, though it seems to be lacking
in the 'requier'd misspelling department. I've left out the un-visited
link they sent along just in case.

bogus???

.................................
From: Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2003, 7:24am (MST+2) To:
bassin Subject: Ebay Fraud Verification Process

Dear eBay user,
As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period
review of our member accounts.
You are requested to visit our site by following the link given below

Please fill in the required information.
This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk free
environment to run your auctions, and maintain the eBay Experience.
Thank you
Accounts Management
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you
information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy
Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
Copyright 2002 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

Announcements | Register | SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety) | Feedback Forum
| About eBay
Copyright 1995-2001 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective
owners.
Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User

Scottishmoney wrote:

Looks like they are getting a bit more professional,
ie less mispelled words etc.

Another scary thing is this "URL spoofing". Under certain circumstances
some web browsers display an incomplete URL in the address bar. That is,
you may see "http://register.ebay.com" but the actual address is
" which means you don't "go" to the
eBay site but to that 192... domain. From what I have read, that affects
various IE versions.

For Mozilla users there is the %00 trick which unfortunately ;-) only
works with the status bar at the bottom. People who check links by
looking at that bar before they click would see, for example,
"http://www.mozilla.org" but the actual link would be
". In this case you would at
least notice the difference when you get to the "target" page with the
address bar visible.

Christian