-EBay users BEWARE-

If you get ANY emails from eBay claiming to be their SafeHarbor dept., requesting that you follow up with them in respect to "fraudulant activity" and bidding on your account, DO NOT REPLY OR CLICK ON THE LINK THEY PROVIDE. Below is a website where you can get more information on this phishing scam, and what to do if you get an email.

http://www.doshelp.com/Scams-fraud/Services/Ebay-Scams.htm


I've also included a copy of the email I received this morning from these SOBs' in my inbox (although Hotmail smartly forwarded it straight into my junk folder -- surprising for a Microsoft joint!)-->







***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

eBay Fraud Mediation Request
Date: Tue, 15 March 2005

You have recieved this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

THE FRAUD ALERT ID CODE CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ATTACHED IN OUR FRAUD MEDIATION REQUEST FORM, IN ORDER TO VERIFY YOUR EBAY ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS.

Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614
(Please save this Fraud Alert ID Code for your reference.)

To help speed up this process, please access the following form to complete the verification of your eBay account registration informations:

[url]http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay[url] &fraud alert id code=00937614

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Please Note:
If we do not receive the appropriate eBay account verification within 48 hours, then we will assume this eBay account is fraudulent and will be suspended.
The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.

We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc.





That is all.

I get ( or shall I say used to get) phishing type emails from eBay all the time. I would just forward them to [email protected], and for Paypal phishes- [email protected]. They would reply back to me the same day and confirm it was a fraudulent email and would investigate it.