fake ebay email

[lezgar]

I have received a fake email from ebay

This is the text




eBay Security Measures



Notice of account temporary suspension


Stimated eBay member :


We regret to inform you that your eBay account, has been temporarily suspended due to various login attempts from diffrent global locations.

NOTE

This is a preventive Warning message for our users to be able to avoid fraudulent activity and future inconveniences.


As Romania is one of the most high rated fraudulent countries , we temporarily suspended your account to avoid future problems or misusage of your eBay account.


Here are the last 3 login attempts :

1. IP address : 193.105.3.173
ISP host : st13.i-cafe.orizont.net
Location : Romania

2. IP address : 80.97.171.22
ISP host : rds-net.bistrita.net
Location : Romania

3. IP address : 62.177.188.59
ISP host : adsl.bbeyond.ro
Location : Romania



If you are traveling and made these login attempts yourself or borrowed your eBay account to someone else , please log in below.

Travelling confirmation Here





If you want to re-activate your eBay account , please follow our instructions.

Re-activate your account Here






If this situation is not solved in the next 24 hours your account will be permanently suspended.


Sincerely, eBay

This is an automated email, please do not respond to it as your inquiry would not be received.

Email Id : PP458



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[Major Catastrophe]

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If you are traveling and made these login attempts yourself or borrowed your eBay account to someone else , please log in below.

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'Or borrowed your eBay account to someone else....'

That narrows it down to a Yorkshireman...or is it Lancashire?

 

[StephenSails]

The language used in that email stinks of dead rats

 

[blueglass]

not sure what point you are making with this post? care to expand?

 

[l'escargot]

It isn't a fake e mail from e bay, it is a randomly mass mailed phishing e mail from a spammer. If you have an e bay account have a read of the Safety Centre which tells you all you need to know.

 

[Bilgediver]

This is not from Ebay...Fake or otherwise. It is as one other has said a Phishing e-mail from a third party trying to trip you up into revealing your log on details by clicking as requested which will take you to their awaiting site and not E-bay.

You may receive similar from Barclaycard...Halifax...Paypal etc.

If you read your e-mail using outlook express and instead of opening these emails right click on the header and open them in straight text for you can see how they work and you will see that although it says click here for Ebay that the address you click on is some other which in HTML view is not visible.

don t click on links in these e-mails and even refrain from opening them in HTML view if possible!!


John

 

[oldharry]

Had a virtually identical one relating to AOL: I had forgotten to re-enter card details for my account when a new card was issued. A polite reminder from AOL was followed within 10 minutes by a threatening one insisting the account would be terminated immediately unless I renewed my details by clicking 'here'

As the email did not have the AOL identifiers, we forwarded it to AOLs security centre. They never replied.