Ebay Purporting To Be Ebay attempt to get passwords and account numbers San Jose California
we just recieved the following email from what appeared to come from a legitimate ebay email address
From: aw-confirm@ebay.com [mailto:aw-confirm@ebay.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:40 AM
To: XXXXXXX
Subject: eBay Regular Maintenance
We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures.
Your account has been selected for this maintenance.
Protecting the security of your eBay auction account is our primary concern,
and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Comments are welcomed!
In order to update your account information, you need to complete the following process!
If not, your account may behave unnormally and errors may occur without notification.
In order to complete the maintenance process press the following button:
Knowing ebay NEVER askes for personal info we forwarded it to the Trust and Safety dept. The response.. Did not come from them and was a "spoof" email attempting to get our personal account info including pay pal account and password etc.. They are now looking into it and take this form of fraud very seriously.
If you recieve this email DO NOT ANSWER IT. Foward to ebay Trust and Security.
Shelley
boulder creek, California
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Bren
Yucaipa,California,
U.S.A.
Solution to SPAM
#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, March 16, 2004
All you have to do is send emails of this nature to Spoof@ebay.com. It's just like the spam on AOL and it is NOT from Ebay. I get them a lot and just send to ebay.. they respond thanking me for sending.
Hope this helps you!!!!