is this a hoax - ebay

[Jimmy Little]

Dear valued eBay member:
It has come to our attention that your eBay billing informations are
out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your
online experience and update your personal records you will not run
into any future problems with the online service. However, failure
to update your records will result in account suspension. Please
update your records by August 30th.


Once you have updated your account records your eBay session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in
cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future
problems.

To update your eBay records click here:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate



eBay Update team
http://www.ebay.com

[streetster]

depends if the e-mail pointed to that URL or a different one

[Trash Man]

Do you have an account on ebay.com?

[kushtibari]

Its a con - do not respond to it. Trying to think of where to send it. Something like spam@ebay.co.uk - its a con to get your password. They can then access your account and sell nonexistent items (usually rolex watches and stuff like that) using your positive feedback.

[elglg]

I get one of these every week or so, It is a fake, as I haven't had my account suspended as they say....

Have you sold something on ebay recently and added your email address on the listing, I found that they became more frequent when I did this, so I leave it out now.

[DsW]

With English like that?!!?

Of course its a con!

You can report emails like this through EBay's "contact us" link.

cheers,
dave

[Paul Adams]

Almost certainly a phishing scam, I assume the email is in HTML format?

Right-click the email body and view source, find the href="..." for the link they are trying to get you to click on - chances are that there's a "%00" in there, so the bit after this is where they really end up taking you.

[Steve]

And to think us FireBird users don't have any web address problems, lol.

[DeepThought]

It's a con.

[plaz]

definate con, somewhere on ebay it says they will never send you emails asking you to update this and that and update password etc..

[Jimmy Little]

thanks guys, i feel sorry for the hundreads of people who will fall for these

[Lexeus]

I am suprised you haven't received an email from ebay telling you its a con.
I received one from ebay telling me about this scam, but haven't actually received the scam email, lucky me

Anythng like this is always a hoax, although I admit it takes a bit of pondering. I remember a while ago there was a scam where AOL customers were sent an email saying they had been entered into the monthly AOL prize draw and all they had to do was click the link included, enter their username and password to log in, and they would be told whether they had won.
Of course with AOL this was a bit more serious really. As AOL have your credit card details on record and allow you to buy stuff from their 'AOL shops' which is just charged straight to the accounts registered credit card

Glad I am not with AOL anymore

[zhenboy]

its definitely a scam!!!
there r tooo many of these kind of s*** on ebay now...
they sell powerbook,G5,mobilephones,plasma tv,etc...
check their feedback, their 'ENGLISH', their 'CHEAP' price....
dont fall in their trap!

[Jimmy Little]

i have 256 pos feedback on ebay... and i have stopped using it now, it's gone sooooooooo down hill! it's hard to get a bargin!

[Stoo]

Don't bid on any high value tech item, you get 100's of emails offering "the same item at a special low price" .. "just send £500 to..."

eBay's a joke these days, if it's not scam artists, it's idiots bidding retail prices on 2nd hand goods or n00bs using automatic last possible second bidding tools

[Jimmy Little]

Don't bid on any high value tech item, you get 100's of emails offering "the same item at a special low price" .. "just send £500 to..."

eBay's a joke these days, if it's not scam artists, it's idiots bidding retail prices on 2nd hand goods or n00bs using automatic last possible second bidding tools

i agree with EVERYTHING you say mate, it's gone downhill and fast... i only use it for collecting rare toys and stuff that i had when i was a kid! IT stuff is always dodgy or crap..