BS: EBAY ALERT !

Subject: EBAY ALERT !
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 06:55 AM

Below is a copy of a scam email that a number of people have received, purporting to be from Ebay and asking for personal financial information. Ebay say they have NOT sent any such letter and that the message below is a fraud. The "April 1st" date at the very bottom is not lost on me, but if it's a joke it could turn out to be a very unfunny one. (I wouldn't like this letter even if it were genuine.) So just a heads-up: If you get the following, delete it.

From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:18 PM
To: (your e-mail will be here)
Subject: Reinstatement Consideration (KMI902348570)

Dear eBay member!

Your information in our eBay file, was marked (flagged) as incorrect and/or (fraudulent). To avoid any inconvenience concerning an interruption of your service membership, in future. Please take just a moment and update your eBay billing file. Remember to "doublecheck" all the fields for any possible mistakes.

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800-546-2665, ATTN: Marry

Regards,

Marry
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team

456788978
04/01/02

Subject: RE: BS: EBAY ALERT !
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:05 AM

eBay has had some problems with security lately - people have been able to hack in and use member IDs to run auctions of the fraudulent variety. First I've heard of this one -

Thanks for the heads up -

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: EBAY ALERT !
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:14 PM

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: EBAY ALERT !
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 05:49 PM

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: EBAY ALERT !
From: GUEST,fa
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 04:24 PM

Looks like the MudCat is the safest auction around.