posted on July 5, 2003 01:43:09 AM new
Gotten this in my email. Funny, my phone number is current that last time I checked however, there might have been a arera code change recently.....
Subject :
NOTICE eBay Obligatory Verifying - Invalid User Information
Dear eBay user,
We regret to inform you that your home phone number had an error on
Ebay Inc. databases.
We use your phone number for your identification purpose only.
If the requested information is not provided to us then we will regret to
inform you that your account will be suspended from our database until
required information is provided.
* Invalid User Information - Our records show that there are some discrepancies
with the information that you registered with on our service. Due to this
violation your account will be suspended indefinitely from the site until valid
information can be provided.*
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from
using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.
Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon
obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.
To provide us with your phone number, just click the link below and
Please complete this forum.
http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?Si$
Regards,
Ian
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team
______________________________
Your Personal Trading Community (tm)
eBay Update team
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well what do you thnik? Hoax or real?
posted on July 5, 2003 06:42:27 AM new
It's a hoax - I heard from other people that it's going around. If you're really concerned you can go directly to ebay (not through the email link) and update your phone number if it's incorrect.
Or forward it to [email protected] and they will confirm for you whether it's a hoax or not.
posted on July 5, 2003 12:49:38 PM new
Does ebay make typo errors such as this? I should think they would have a spell check in use. One would think the idiot who sent it would too.
buyhigh
posted on July 5, 2003 06:54:36 PM new
Ever since I commented on this board that I felt "left out" because I never received an eBay hoax letter I have received them at the rate of about 1/day - one day last week I got 6 right in a row!! I dutifully send them all to spoof eBay and move on. In fact, I am sending just about everything i get that says it is from eBay (other than auction notifications) to spoof eBay - better safe than sorry.
posted on July 5, 2003 07:13:12 PM new
Neglus don't forget to use that opportunity to voice anything that e bay needs to fix. Like not letting NPB's leave any feed back. Make it worth the clicks!
posted on July 5, 2003 07:28:54 PM new
buyhigh,,,, Oh yes e bay DOES make spelling errors. Just ask anyone who has been newly asked to join the Powerseller program in an e mail.
If you read it "closely" they in fact have two errors. I sent it to spoofs and they Verified their OWN welcome letter is a spoof! Hahahaha!!!!!!
Great way to cover up their own mistakes!
Now that was over a week ago they MAY have corrected the errors, I doubt it. The two mispellings are: WORKHARD and Entueprenuer,,,,,,hahaha, I,,,,,,am not even sure if I spelt that right. BUT they for positive have it misspelled.
I was forwarding my copy to a friend ( I was SOOOO happy!!! I had to tell him) and spell check caught the errors. I had not clicked ANYTHING on that e mail and immediatly sent it to spoofs. Their reply as stated above. It's a spoof!
IT is NOT a spoof it IS their welcome e mail!!!! My friend checked the spelling from a six month old welcome e mail and he said the e mail was also misspelled.
posted on July 5, 2003 07:46:41 PM new
The best way to tell if the suspension letter is valid and you are indeed suspended is to attempt to bid. Feel free to bid a hunderd bucks each on about 5 or 6 of my auctions. As soon as I receive the money, I'll verify everything went through o.k. and you'll KNOW for sure it was a spoof
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
posted on July 5, 2003 09:54:00 PM new
I've always felt left out too, but got my first spoof the yesterday. Mine told me to resolve my problems or hit the road.
Subj: Notice about your account.
Date: 7/4/2003 10:39:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected]
We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't resolve your problems.
To resolve this please click here and login to eBay in order to resolve your account problems.
If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after that it will be again operational.
Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.
We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.
Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to ebay.
posted on July 5, 2003 10:13:12 PM new
those bad guys are getting good! that one had no spelling errors and sounded official mcjane - did it also include the ebay sign-on page? The ones I have been receiving duplicate the sign-in exactly(no link - the sign-in is right in the email) - but of course you are just handing them your password if you DO sign-in there!!
posted on July 6, 2003 11:43:39 PM new
Please remember that eBay will NEVER send you a link in their emails and ask you to "click on the link" to log in. If you ever get an email like that, then you can be sure that it's not from them.
If anything, they may tell you to log in to your account, but they would not provide the link for you. They would ask you to log in to their home page like you normally would.
posted on July 7, 2003 06:58:51 AM new
Came back from vacation to find a hoax in my mailbox. Nice try, but I didn't fall for it. Said my contact information is incorrect and that I was suspended from bidding and need to update my information. Ya right.
Cheryl
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
--Dalai Llama
