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Watch your accounts this week. Here's what I got in the email box today..
Dear eBay User,
We recently noticed one or more attempts to login into your eBay
account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that
your account has been hijacked by a third party without your
authorization.
In order to protect your sensitive information or unauthorized listings we temporarily suspended your account for further investigations. To reactivate your account, click on the link below and confirm your identity by completing the secure form that will appear.
If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual
login attempts may have been initiated by you.
Take our apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Thank you
eBay Account Theft Prevention
The log in attempt was made from:
IP address: 205.188.209.xxx
ISP host: cache-dq04.proxy.aol.com
I've blocked out the last three digits with the xx
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It's probably not a legitimate email. Ebay wouldn't ask you to click on a link in an email. I hope you didn't click the link or fill out the info they wanted.
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It's a scam, I got one (or more) and sent it to spoof*ebay.com they responded that it was not an eBay email.
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The sad thing is that although a lot of sellers are savvy enough to avoid falling for these, a customer of mine, with a high feedback but who only buys and doesn't sell, fell for a Paypal scam email last week.
She was completely cleaned out. They had to go through the most amazing amount of hassle to get the whole deal cleared up. Buyers who don't hang out on boards have no idea about this kind of stuff, even power shoppers who only use eBay as another shopping venue, don't know the risks.
I wish eBay would do something to promote awareness of those scumbags... more so than they do now. I get at least 1 of these each day, for either one of our selling IDs'
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Thanks all, I didn't click it, I did forward it to ebay though and noticed on the ebay auction discussions board above that others are getting similar emails.
One customer of ours did click it though and did get scammed so, beware..
I did change my password on ebay though..here ebay auction discussions..
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we should design a newsletter with alerts and smaple emails in it and all herens send it to all our customers, yes it would be spam but it would be good spam. I f we could save one person form clicking on these things it would be all worth it.
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Here ya go gabs...another scam..
This is James from Swiftpay customer service. I'm e-mailing
you to inform you that user: John94 has sent you $124. Please
login to your swiftpay account and claim your secured funds.
To recieve your funds you need to have a valid and up to date
swiftpay account.Please CLICK HERE to sign up if you do
not already have an account. Your money will remain in your
account pending a claim for 96 hours at which time it will be
held to protect against possible money laundering and fraud.
Have a nice day Sincerely, Swiftpay Customer Service
jsmith*swiftpay.com