The latest ebay scam e-mail.

[mjn]

Dear xxxxxxx@hotmail.com:

When people break our policies, violate consumer trust and the law of the land, eBay and PayPal work with law enforcement throughout the world to apprehend and prosecute fraudsters. Our diligence in this area is evidenced by the arrests that are made and the trust that is built both within the community and with law enforcement. Most importantly, we do this without compromising our commitment to our member's privacy. eBay, Inc., has established a Fraud Investigations Team (FIT) to promote safe use of our platforms, and to collaborate with law enforcement throughout the world to enforce policies, prosecute fraudsters and help keep our Community safe.

Valued eBay Member,

We are contacting you to remind you that on 07 JUN 2005 we identified some unusual activity in your account coming from a foreign IP address :capitol.guatemala-203-pc.in ( IP address located in India ) . We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen and involved in fraudulent transactions, or that there were additional problems with your card.

According to our site policy you will have to confirm that you are the real owner of the eBay account by completing the following form or else your account will be marked as fraudulent , and will remain open for investigation. You will pay for the fees wich will result from the financial transactions between eBay and FIT ( Fraud Investigations Team ) .

https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI...=&UsingSSL=yes

eBay's Privacy Policy and Law Enforcement Disclosure: We care deeply about the privacy of the eBay community and will protect the privacy of our members even while working closely with law enforcement to prevent criminal activity. If you are unsure about our privacy practices, please visit eBay's Privacy Central for more information.

[Nick_UK]

That is a fairly old scam re-visited Genuine Ebay emails are always addressed to the user name you used when you joined, and never addressed to an e-mail address.

[Lawrenzini]

Humph, that link is fake? My browser indicated that it is a secure connection in the same way it usually does when I sign into ebay.

I'm slightly confused.

[Nick_UK]

Very often the text displayed in the links and where the links actually take you are two different places.

Like this:

http://www.yahoo.co.uk

[Lawrenzini]

I understand that however in my browser (firefox) when it is on a secure page the address bar goes green to indicate a secure connection. It did this when I went onto that link. Also the link in the address bar looked very ebay like.

[krish]

Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

I understand that however in my browser (firefox) when it is on a secure page the address bar goes green to indicate a secure connection. It did this when I went onto that link. Also the link in the address bar looked very ebay like.

could that be because the OP has only copied the text here rather than the actual dubious hyperlink ...mmm?

[LFC_SL]

Originally Posted by Nick_UK

http://www.yahoo.co.uk

Burn him! A witch say I!

[FruitBat]

This is the same email I got this week (see here).

I reported it to eBay and the link (under the "Respond To This Notification" button) no longer works. I suppose they can just keep registering new domain names which look a bit eBay.

[edit: that probably needs more explanation]

Where mjn has a link in his email, I had a "button" (img link) with

href="javascript:ol('http://www.ebayinfoweb.com/..../');"

[ash]

usually on GoogleMail, a message comes on the top that this could be a spoof email. So I never get fooled