OT- EBay and PayPal users-- READ THIS!!

[Nextmother]

I recieved a couple of messages from Ebay yesterday and something just did not feel right about them. I went to the Ebay site and did some checking around and found an email address ([email protected]) to check it out before I gave them the information they were looking for. Here is the some of the text of the emails I received.

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dear ebay member,


it has come to our attention that your ebay billing updates are out of order. if you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. however, failure to update your records will result in account termination. once you have updated your account records your ebay session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. failure to update will result in cancellation of service, terms of service (tos) violations or future billing problems. to update your ebay records click here:

href=3d"http://203.31.125.220/wppuser/.accverify/index.php">http://ww= w.ebay.com/verification/%?6488820019

thank you
accounts management

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I received a message back from EBay this morning telling me that this email was NOT from them and  that they are investigating the source.

I wanted to let everyone I could know about this. I don't use ebay that much, maybe once or twice a year and almost fell for this. The only reason I stopped was because it asked me for my ebay username and password, my paypal username and password and then wanted my credit card info and my bank account/debit card info.

Please be wary if you receive this sort of email. It could have been a real mess for us.

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