Has anybody gotten this notice before? Is this for real? ***Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice*** You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below. https://signin.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1 (To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields) Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Im going to beat Smartin to it again..... Scamalamadingdong!!!!!! lol.....That cracks me up every time!
Ebay just started a private message service that you can access when you log in when they want you to see an alert. I think they are trying to make email alerts obsolete to prevent fraud. I got one the other day. :bglasses:
If I get anything like that I automatically assume it's fake. I usually enter expletives in the username/password fields after I click on the links, I love how you can log in with a user name like "f-you" and the link says "welcome to ebay" on the next page......
Remember this: NO real company doing business on the web will EVER email you and ask for your information. They already have it. It can't get lost in a computer crash because it is backed up nightly. So they'll NEVER ask you to recite your info.
NEVER store your username and password when Windows asks "Do you want me to remember...." If you even go to a site to screw with them as Artie stated, This info could be found and transfered to them. No Bank, Credit Card Company, Paypal or other money transfer service, or for that matter ANY site/business is going to ask you to verify information through a web page or Email. They all know this a method of fraud and will not ask you to verify. ANY TIME YOU SEE THIS, LET A HUGE RED FLAG FLY IN YOUR FACE THAT READS SOMEONE IS TRYING TO RIP YOU OFF !!!
Received same message two weks ago. Fired it off to Spoof@ebay. They replied it was not ligitimate & to be very careful. I'll bet more than one individual has fallen for this.
