Ebay Email

[Barry Ashcroft]

Had this email from ebay aw-confirm@ebay.com

Dear valuable member,

eBay.com is trying to prevent hacker activities and hacker damages in our system. Due to a lately multiple hacker activities, some of our database has been damaged. In order to keep your account, you have to reply to this message with the following details:

Account login :

Account password:

First Name :

Last Name :

Address 1 :

Address 2 : (none)

City :

State :

Zip :

Country :

Telephone :

Fax :

Soon, you will receive an email containing our details about your account and the new password, only if the account was damaged. Your credit card details will be processed separately, in a secure form on our site. We are sorry for any inconvenience, but we are working hard to keep up the good work. This e-mail message was sent to you from eBay SquareTrade center and with the full support of our SafeHarbour staff.

Copyright ) 2003 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc.

Always sceptical about this type of mail do you think this is legite of some scam message.

Anybody else had this??

Thanks

Barry

[Frau Vesty]

Definite scam.  Ebay always say they will never ask you for your login and password...  They are trying to reassure you that it is genuine by highlighting that they haven't asked for your credit card details, but they will be able to get them if they know your login and password...

[perksy]

Haven't had this one but have had 3 similar that WEREN'T from Ebay....

Be Careful, the one/s we received asked for account Info' to be verified, Password etc  

Emailed Ebay directly and they said they would Investigate....

[adhawkins]

As has been said, never divulge information like this in response to an e-mail. The other ones to look out for are those that ask you to click on a link and fill in a form. These look a lot like the e-bay originals, but they're almost certainly fake. The URL will be wrong in the URL bar (or if you're running a late enough browser then it might even fail completely).

As has been said, the people who really need to know this information already know it, so would never ask.

Andy

[Barry Ashcroft]

Thanks guys thought as much will send the email on to ebay.

Barry

[Richgm]

Anything to do with your ebay account you should be able go go to www.ebay.co.uk click on myebay and do it from there. As Andy said "never divulge information like this in response to an e-mail". And never use  link in an email like that to get to the ebay site. It's been know for people to make a web site look like ebays just to get your account details.

Make sure you include the header info if you forward the email to ebay. may help them track the slimmy b4stards down.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

Also watch out for faked messages from Paypal; there seem to be a few doing the rounds at the mo.

[neilb]

If you right click on the e-mail and click on options you should be able to see the internet headers, looking through this will show you where the message really came from

[Enterpryse]

I've had at least half a dozen of these things in the last week and a others asking the account number I would like payments to be sent for kit I havn't sold.

Delete it !

[james grayley]

have had several from internet banking, its all b@llox. Forward to your bank etc and they pretend to deal with it. I also change my passwords often to keep the b@stards on their toes....