I just got an email asking me to verify my account information.
Surprising since I don't use Ebay, but anyway. I followed the link,
and filled in various vulgarities into the form. I was wondering if
anyone knows of special credit card numbers that set off alarm
bells when they are attempted to be used?

RO

Only your own. Unfortunately, despite all warnings and news stories, many people are gullible enough to fall for this. If you see one of these mails, report it to eBay and they can get the site shut down.

I am not going to register to tell them about a scam email. If someone here is an ebay member, the email is below...

RO.

-------- Original Message --------
From: - Fri Jul 16 13:49:18 2004
X-UIDL: 1090002508.11935.qmail8,S=8230
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Delivered-To: xxxxxxxx@xxxx.com
Received: (qmail 11927 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jul 2004 18:28:27 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO psmtp.com) (12.158.35.197) by qmail8.24hoursupport.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2004 18:28:27 -0000
Received: from source ([218.154.70.10]) by exprod6mx53.postini.com ([12.158.35.251]) with SMTP; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:28:24 PDT
From: eBay.com <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
To: xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@xxx.com>
Subject: aw-confirm@ebay.com
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:27:27 +0900
Reply-To: eBay.com <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Message-ID: <57353828.20040717032727@ebay.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
X-Mailer: EM: 4.52.0.790
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_PartID_523114468712377"
X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.18881/93.64891 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:100.0000 C:51.8443 )
X-pstn-settings: 4 (1.5000:3.0000) s gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m C
X-pstn-addresses: from <aw-confirm@ebay.com> forward (org good) [966/37]


Dear eBay User,

We regret to inform you, that we had to block your eBay account
because we have been notified that your account may have been compromised by outside parties.

Our terms and conditions you agreed to state that your account must always be under your control
or those you designate at all times. We have noticed some activity related to your account that
indicates that other parties may have access and or control of your information in your account.

Please be aware that until we can verify your identity no further access to your account will be allowed.As a result,Your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted.To start using your eBay account fully,Please uptake and verify your information by clicking below

http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?Verify

Regards,

eBay Member Service

**Please Do Not Reply To This E-mail As You Will Not Receive A Reponse**

You don't have to register, they have email addresses on their website.

Every one that I followed, it asked me to sign in register. I can't imagine that I am the only one though. :-D They even have a feedback selection with a pulldown option
'Suspect Email from Ebay received'
'Unsolicited Email from Ebay received'
etc...

I was more interested in causing the spammer a whole lot of grief adding tons of useless and incorrect information.

RO

I registered, my personal info started with "F**k You". It made me feel a little better. Of course everthing I gave them was vulgar and bogus.

I believe its just simply spam@ebay.com or abuse@ebay.com

I'm sure like most companies that large, they have aliases setup to get to to correct department, etc.

You could also email the admin of the parent site of the link you followed. I've gotten much faster responses that way than emailing ebay. Just make sure you don't email them from an account you actually use, and that it's a legitimate site. Most of the time I've found phishers are using free eastern european hosing sites. Remember, as long as the sysadmin isn't the spammer, you've got a good chance they are a geek just like us and hate this stuff.
Michael

Normally, you forward them to << spoof@ebay.com >>.

I've been getting one-or-two a month lately. I would think eBay should also try to get them on copyright infringement if they can find the people, since they basic'ly steal the whole eBay page.

I've also gotten a couple from online banks that I don't have accounts with.