Fraud Alert from Ebay.....!

[bridgdav]

I had 3 mails from Ebay in my inbox this morning....

Mail said:

eBay Safeharbor Department Notice Fraud Alert ID : 00626654 Dear eBay member, You have received this email because you or someone else had used your identity to make false purchases on eBay. For security reasons, we are required to open an investigation on this matter. We treat online fraud seriously and all cases which cannot be resolved between eBay and the other involved party are forwarded for further investigations to the proper authorities. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your personal information against the eBay account registration data we have on file by following the link below.

The link didn't work...!!

I have contacted ebay, they responded very quickly

Ebay said:

The email you reported did not originate from, nor is it endorsed by, eBay. We are very concerned about this problem and are working diligently to address the situation. We are currently investigating the source of this email to take further action. You may rest assured that your account standing has not changed and that your listings have not been affected. We advise you to be very cautious of email messages that ask you to submit information such as your credit card number or your password.

Just a Heads up...!

Dave

[off_again]

eBay and PayPal will never ask you to confirm your details via an email. If there is a genuine problem they will ask you to login to either site (from the root URL) and then it will prompt you through the website - not via a URL on an email.

Its called pshing and its an epidemic at the moment.

[telecat]

Get one supposedly from PayPal every week and bin it.