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Tanooki Kuriibo
06-08-2004, 11:09 PM
Hey I know somtimes ppl post there questonable letters from ebay here. well I've gotten one and I dont know if its real or not. please give me your two cents its greatly appreciated

Dear valued eBay member,

It has come to our attention that your eBay billing records
are out of date. That requires you to update the billing information.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update
your billing records, you will not run into any future problems with eBay's online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account termination.
Please update your records in maximum 24 hours.

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 billing
problems.

Follow the secure link to update your billing information:

https://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignInUpdate

Thank you for your time!
Marry Kimmel,
eBay Billing Department team.
tholly
06-08-2004, 11:15 PM
i would just log on to your ebay account and see if anything needs to be updated....if it is a real email, your credit card info may be getting close to the expiration date.
Achika
06-08-2004, 11:17 PM
I don't think so. eBay and Paypal will use your first name when sending you an email and not "dear user" "dear xxx@xxx.com"
Jibbajaba
06-08-2004, 11:18 PM
<sigh> It's fake, dude.
anagrama
06-09-2004, 06:53 AM
ANY and EVERY email like this is spoof. eBay (or Paypal or whoever) will NEVER ask you to confirm such details by email.
One day people will realise this instead of having the same topic (or slight variations thereof) appearing here every week without fail. :roll:
Jibbajaba
06-09-2004, 11:41 AM
One day people will realise this instead of having the same topic (or slight variations thereof) appearing here every week without fail.

Word.
Cmosfm
06-09-2004, 12:54 PM
FAYKE!

as I've said before, click on the link and type in a fake user name and password...

User Name: Fuck
Password: You

Then if they ask for your credit card information, then you know it's fake. :)
garethamiga
06-09-2004, 02:30 PM
FAYKE!

as I've said before, click on the link and type in a fake user name and password...

User Name: Fuck
Password: You

Then if they ask for your credit card information, then you know it's fake. :)

Hey, that's my user name!
Now I'm going to have to make a new password as well!
buffquinn
06-09-2004, 02:56 PM
yeah, ebay and paypal will always use your real name for e-mails, so right off the bat if it says, dear valued ebay member or anything along those lines, means you can junk it.
anagrama
06-09-2004, 03:46 PM
Hey, that's my user name!
Now I'm going to have to make a new password as well!

Arf! LOL
SegaAges
06-11-2004, 05:36 AM
Here is the thing I always do to check. If it says your account will be disabled in 24 hours, wait for the 24 hours and then check. Ebay has a hotline you can call if it is real. Either that or I will wait about 1 week and click on the link. So far, 10 out of the 10 times (well, 9 out of the 10, because they tricked me with their very first e-mail to me, but that is another story) when I waited 1 week, the link didn't work. The real link actually goes to some ip number that makes you think you are in eBay. Hell, eBay pages are easy to fake. For my own personal homepage, I copied all the stuff from an auction because I thought it was funny (my homepage is 1 particular auction where a hotwheel went for 15k). Granted, I have alot of html skills, but anyone with html skills can fake an eBay page.
garethamiga
06-11-2004, 07:09 PM
Hey, that's my user name!
Now I'm going to have to make a new password as well!

Arf! LOL

Oh no! Someone's already got 'arse'!
suppafly
06-12-2004, 12:36 AM
basura! :angry: