paulr

Dear eBay member,


We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due to concerns we have
for the safety and integrity of the eBay community.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend,
indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe
that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these
actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us (such as: your
billing address doesn't match your credit card, your credit card has expired or we were unable to charge
your credit card for your current eBay fees).

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay.
To re-activate your eBay account please follow the link bellow:
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn

Please note that any seller fees due to eBay will immediately become due and payable. eBay will charge
any amounts you have not previously disputed to the billing method currently on file. All newer fees will
be immediately disputed to the new billing information you
provide to us sequel of this message.


Regards,

Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.


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1.I've done nothing wrong
2.The activation link doesnt work
3.I'm bidding on something important on Friday...

Scooby Snacks 23

I've received a number of emails from 'eBay' recently, which have turned out to be scams.

My suggestion would be to email it directly to eBay and ask them if it's genuine.

My initial thought is that it's not genuine.

ajm

The link may be be faked. If it's a scam the link will not take you to ebay's site you will be taken to the scammer's copy of the ebay site where he will be waiting for you to type your login details!

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

That sounds like one of the phishing (sp) emails that are doing the rounds. They try to get you to enter your login details, this is not ebay that the link takes you to even though it looks the same. Once you've entered your details you suddenly start listing stuff that you didn't even know you had

Never follow a link from an email and enter login details, go onto ebay itself from your browser and login there. You should find that everything is fine.

If you hold your mouse pointer over the link on the email what does the url above the start button say? I bet it's not the url you're looking at.

Bin the email

ajm

If you are using Outlook, right click somewhere on the open email and click "View Source". If you paste all the source code here we can see where the link points.

JackClark

Go to ebay.co.uk, login, go to My Ebay and check your messages.

paulr

Paul,it says....

http://210.22.13.89/~guest/saw-cgi/B...sPageName.html

I have emailed ebay about it.

JackClark

Page cannot be found. I wouldn't worry too much.

ali_j

i got tonnes of these in my bulk folder, yahoo spam filter does a good job but i ahve been recieving a few in my main folder about a dyeing man wanting to leave my money lol.

Freak

if you are suspended you will not be able to log into your account and do anything.....try it and see.

Place a bid on anything to see- or list something to sell- but as I said, having been suspended for something myself many moons ago, you cant sign in properly if its true.
They normally tell you why in the mail too.
here is a cut and paste of mine from when i was suspended:

From : <ukinvestigations@ebay.com>
Sent : 08 June 2004 14:30:55
To: ******@******
Subject : INS NOTICE: VeRO: eBay Registration Suspension - *****@*******

**PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT EMAIL REGARDING YOUR ACCOUNT**

Dear (ebay username) (****@*******),

We regret to inform you that we have suspended your account for listing
potentially infringing items on eBay.

If you wish to have us consider reinstating your account, you will need to
follow our reinstatement procedures located at:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/community/reinstfaq.html

If you feel that your account was suspended in error, or have other questions
relating to your suspension, please visit our suspension FAQs at:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/community/reinstfaq.html

Any attempts to avoid this suspension, such as registering new accounts, could
result in permanent suspension from eBay.

Please note that any seller fees due to eBay will immediately become due and
payable. eBay will charge any amounts you have not previously disputed to the
billing method currently on file.

Regards,

The eBay Community Watch Team



Thats the genuine mail sent to me when I was suspended for some crap (selling a record which was banned and outlawed worldwide ) and it was a pain in the *** getting it reinstated too!

it sounds like yours may be a phishing attempt- forward it to spoof@ebay.co.uk

richardg

i had one exactly the same (as paulr's) and deleted it. firstly if this was from ebay, they would probably, although not definately use your log-in name rather than refer to you as "ebay member" and secondly, check the grammar the last sentence gives it away. if you ran ebay and you were sending a message like this to someone, you'd probably want to make your point as clearly and simply as possible.

paulr

Done that and there is nothing about suspension.

David Lock

I'm getting stuff from a Paypal lookalike saying I am about to pay $1200 for some sex device (no - before you ask). Reported it to Paypal and got an auto reply.

paulr

Freak.When your account was suspended could you still log in but not bid,or could you not even log in at all?

Looking like a fake though,thanks everyone.

OllyK

If you get a mail from any organisation asking you to logon to confirm details etc, type the home URL in to your browser and navigate or use a known browser favourite. Do not click the link in the e-mail or copy it. That's assuming you haven't already realised it's garbage and deleted it anyway.

The other alternative of course is to click the link, enter your details and then check to see if your account has reached its OD limit a couple of days later, if it has, you've been scammed.

Soulgirl

I always click the link and fill in my details... with lots of swear words... before I forward it to spoof@ebay as mentioned above

A genuine ebay email will state your full username

Freak

It just bought up a suspension notice on 'my ebay' page and I couldnt access anything at all. The only thing it gave me access to was the safeharbour pages.

Couldnt access my sold items folder for example, as I had a couple of things i still had to post- very annoying as people had paid and I couldnt access their address to post the things!

OllyK

Nice, they now know your mail address is active and can pass your address on to other scammers as a valid address!

Never reply to spam, never interact with it and ensure Outlook etc does not download images by default. Add the (originating) address to your black list and get some decent spam-ware that supports heuristics, pass it the mail to chomp on.

unclebuck

deffo fake.

ignore....

paulr

Its deffo a fake then,as UB says.
Phew.............
Thanks all.


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unclebuck

I've had several of them. Just ignore is my advice.

StickyMicky

the screen is wrong

that same screen on ebay now lets you view things as a guest instead of giving you the "register" button

Soulgirl

sorry... I'm not that dim... pasting the url into your browser doesn't give away who you are - it's the same page for everyone Perhaps using the words click link was daft in retrospect

Besides, I'm constantly hit with crap - just goes straight in the bin

Dazza's-STi

its a genuine link and web page...

Although the guys who said log in and see are giving very bad advice!!!!!!!

NEVER do this! I can look at and decipher any internet traffic if i'm able to intercept it! and if your logging onto someones server then that makes it even easier!!!!! ALLWAYS check the certificate for the server your connecting to... ! ALLWAYS!
However the web page link that you have been sent is a genuine ebay page as checked against the verisign certificate..., that said in a spoofed mail scammers may have added a gen link but also added other things for you to click on... hover your mouse around the mail and make sure only the link get an arrow, anything alse don't click as this generally will confirm your email address...!
It maybe that someone has acced your account or ther's been a security breach on the account, obviously they would have to suspend it to check... give them a bell and see!

Dazza

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Oh dear That's not as clever as you think. As said already you don't reply to any spam or spoof emails like this because then know your address is active.

Soulgirl

Paulpalmer - see post number 23

Dazza - of course the link above is genuine - it doesnt show what link lurked beneath in the actual email

john_s

iTrader: (1)

Also, the URL shown is a "ebay.com", ebay UK always uses "ebay.co.uk" as far as I am aware.

John.

shanewrx/sti

hi paul make another account in your gf name or get your mate to open one

Freak

The recommendation was to log into ebay.co.uk and find out in 5 seconds whether it was genuine- as it would show up on there.
Anyone stupid enough to login on the link given in the mail deserves all they get for being so daft, and noone actually suggested logging in on the link given so I dont know where you got that idea from?

bloke

Paul's right, they can encode in the link a reference to the email they sent you and confirm your email. You tell them to bu99er off, they laugh as they sell your confirmed address...

Take care out there