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If you receive the following message, please don't click on the link. Someone sent out a bogus e-mail that requests that you update your ebay billing information. I contacted safeharbor about it and they verified it is a scam and are in the process of investigation. 01:14 AM CST, 04/01/2002 From: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] To: Subject: Reinstatement Consideration (). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear eBay member! Your information in our eBay file, was marked (flagged) as incorrect and/or (fraudulent). To avoid any inconvenience concerning an interruption of your service membership, in future. Please take just a moment and update your eBay billing file. Remember to "doublecheck" all the fields for any possible mistakes. To respond and update your information , please click on the web address below. If that does not work, please cut and paste the entire web address into the address field of your browser. <A HREF="http://208.x.x.x/xxx. HTML">Verify,Confirm and Update</a>. Privacy is very important to us. Our privacy practices are held to high standards by outside organizations such as TRUSTe. For more information on TRUSTe, please go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you. Your information is secured! The information you supply below is used solely to confirm its accuracy for verification purposes. The transfer of your information is protected by secure 128-bit encrypted SSL connection. Your personal information added in step 3 will not be stored by eBay Your credit rating will not be affected . ******************************************************************************** **************** We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases. ________________________________________________________________ For our latest announcements, please check: <A HREF="http://www2.ebay.com/av/announce.shtml"> latest announcements</a>. ________________________________________________________________ In order to better serve you, we'd like to occasionally request feedback on our service. If you would rather not participate, please click on the link below and send us an email with the word "REMOVE" in the subject line. If that does not work, please send an email to the email address below. Your request will be processed within 5 days. mailto:[Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] ******************************************************************************** ***************** 800-5xx-2xxx, ATTN: Marry Regards, Marry eBay SafeHarbor Investigations Team ________________________________________________________________ xxxxx 04/01/02 Here is the reply from eBay regarding this email: Thank you for writing to eBay with your concerns about the email you received. Several eBay members have notified us about an attempt to gain access to their private information through an email solicitation made to appear as if it is originating from eBay. This email did not originate from eBay, nor was it endorsed by us. We are currently investigating this matter and plan to take appropriate action once our investigation is completed. Please remember that eBay will never ask you for your private information, including credit card information, in an email. Also, eBay will never send you any request or solicitation from a non-eBay email account, or provide a link outside of eBay for entering credit card or other private information. In the future if you receive a similar email, do not respond to it, and send it to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now].
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Thanks! I am an eBay-aholic and hadn't heard about this.......
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