These do come from an ebay account though.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,391774,00.html
>From: shelden3@pldi.net
>When I address groups about the scams of the Internet the first thing I
>tell them is to not click on links that want your money, could want your
>money etc... Emails can be made to look very convincing. Best practice
>is to ALWAYS go to the merchants home page by manually entering it into
>your browser. Do NOT click on the merchants banner or link with in the
>email as it will take you to their site which is designed to look like
>your bank, eBay etc..... By doing this you can verify the transaction and
>or communication.
>
>These scams work as you can see which is why they get sent out.
>
> I nearly got scammed out of $2000 this week in a e-bay transaction that I
> > didn't figure out until the scammer asked for a MoneyGram. E-bay
>reported
> > this morning that the scam came from an "unauthorized account take-over"
>=
> > hack. This is doubly dangerous, as the initial correspondence was
> > "official", including my e-bay ID and all graphics and formatting (with
> > instructions not to send a MoneyGram).
> >
> > The auction closed without meeting the seller's reserve. I then got a
> > Second Chance notice saying the seller had reduced his Buy-it-now price
>to
> > $2000 - a bargain "too good to be true". This notice included my e-bay
>ID
> > and in all respects looked official - same pictures, same text, logo,
> > everything. Somewhere around then I also got another copy in which my
> > e-bay ID was replaced with "buyer". I might have noticed the logo at
>that
> > time, as Vista usually blocks them. But I did not, so I accepted. Then
>I
> > got a direct message from the scammer, bypassing e-bay. We had several
> > back and forths, before he asked for a MoneyGram.
> >
> > I had one real response from the seller that included his name. So I
> > found him on WhitePages.com and called. He had been getting all manner
>of
> > messages about cars that were not his, and two hours before had
>contacted
> > e-bay, erased his account, and established a new ID.
> >
> > So, the lesson is that you may not be able to recognize a scam until
>they
> > ask for a direct payment of some kind outside of e-bay and PayPal.
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