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Re: eBay scam or not?

To: "bschwart@postoffice.pacbell.net" <bschwart@postoffice.pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: eBay scam or not?
From: George Richardson <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:48:01 -0500
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net, spitfires@autox.team.net
Organization: Merlin Group Inc
References: <34070-22003213131324829@M2W044.mail2web.com>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
So go directly to Ebay and reverify your account there without using 
anything generated by the email. Or email Ebay and ask them.

bschwart@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:

>Today is the second time I have received an email supposedly from eBay,
>official looking and everything asking me to verify my account.  The first
>I ignored because it was asking for credit card info, which I never gave
>them and as far as I can remember, you dont need it to register as a
>buyer  it said that if I didnt verify within 24 (seemed a litly timely
>sinc what if I dont reed my emai every day) hours that my account would be
>deleted  of course it wasnt but I just got another one, this one also
>says basically the same thing, very offical looking with the ebay logo,
>even secure, but the link on this one gives me a 404 not found error.  Now
>I dont mind re-verifying, but I am not sure why I would need to.  However
>if this is a scam to get info what should on do.  Any way to insure that
>this is legit??  Another thing that makes me suspect is the return address.
>The first way to ebaysomething @ aol.com  and this one is ebay
>security.team@ebay.com  They appear to be addressed to only me not a whole
>list of others on the message. Has anybody else received these??  Is this
>legit??
>
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