beware!

[JakeH]

just recieved the below from someone claiming to be ebay, keeping you informed

Jake

M0765 NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension -Section 9-



Dear eBay member,

We are writing to alert you that your eBay account has been suspended, because your credit/debit card company declined eBay's attempt to verify
your registration information that we have on file.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership
and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.
To remove any limitations, you are required to confirm your eBay account registration by following the link below :


Click here to restore your eBay account

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes registering of a new account.


Regards,
eBay Billing Department

[Talonmotorsport]

Well done that man I'm sure that would have looked very convincing. I've been caught out before with some thing simular mostly banks claiming that my Natwest account needs some thing doing to it, funny that as I'm with Santander.

[Bonzo]

Typical scam message Jake

Most buisnesses will never send you a message starting with " Dear member "

Any authentic messages from ebay admin will always appear in your ebay message folder ;)

Same thing goes for Paypal.

Get these on an almost daily basis, thankfully my spam filter usualy pick them up.

Yes Phil

I get messages from all sorts of banks that I have never dealt with.

Not had any large overseas lottery wins for a while .... If I don't win big soon, I am going to stop not playing them :D :D

[Talonmotorsport]

Not had any large overseas lottery wins for a while .... If I don't win big soon, I am going to stop not playing them :D :D

The Nigerian Nat. lottery jack pot is now looking very good I could be getting 80,000,000 paunds! I'm just about to enter my bank details although it will be deposited in 5 large holdals in a bin round the corner from me. How lucky am I? :D

[Bonzo]

You lucky devil :D :D :D

[JakeH]

picked up on it because it had been sent to the wrong e-mail address, i have a private one and ebay one and another one for selling things (to people i dont know) keeps things separate and makes life simpler! when i advertised the sierra bits i set up an e-mail which i put on every item if someone wants something that isnt listed, the cheeky beggers!

Jake

[Bonzo]

Tis surprising the amount of spam generated from using ebay & the likes.

I quite often look at the full headders of some spam messages just to find that they bulk messages via ebay customers email address books :eek:

Not going to grumble though, I have sold a hell of a lot via ebay, things that would not sell in a million years in the local rag. :cool:

The fees are creeping ever higher but then no worse than the cost of adertising in a local rag & all the hasle of haggling ;)

Selling my classic car parts on ebay have to date financed almost my entire build :)

I guess as long as you stay alert to possible spam & security breaches no harm will come from such messages.

[JakeH]

indeed, this week is the first time iv used ebay to sell anything, bought a couple of things but never sold. got to the point where iv used my monthly allowance, now (didnt even know there was one) so have had to confirm bank details... means i miss out on free listings but o-well

i am the same but my build has been financed by scrap copper wire :) would be quite a bit further on of road car didnt keep breaking all the damn time! cost me near as damn it £200 in the last month :( money that could have bought roadster parts!

Cheers