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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 03/21/07 16:19
"kim" <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote in message
news:4YidndbO2Lyxs5zbnZ2dnUVZ8tqqnZ2d@giganews.com...
> "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:56chggF27p474U1@mid.individual.net...
>> Yesterday I got 5 emails from an ebay customer, sent via ebay to my ebay
>> userid, telling me to go shop for their products (or something).
>>
>> Today ebay emailed me to say "It appears that your eBay password has
>> become known to a third party."
>>
>> That's nice of them to let me know they messed up. Of course I never
>> clicked anything in any email and I doubt my password _was_ actually
>> compromised. My guess is someone may have been trying to crack it or
>> something so ebay changed the password. (?)
>
> How do you know it was eBay who emailed you?
>
> A common scam is to pose as someone from eBay and claim your password has
> been compromised. If you reply to the link given you are presented with a
> fake eBay screen asking you to log in.
>
> If a warning from eBay is genuine it will be repeated on the My eBay page.
> I always go to that first and see if there are any messages waiting to be
> read. Another clue is when an email purporting to come from eBay.co.uk has
> a return address of eBay.com
>
Well, as I said, I can't log in, so something has changed. I didn't click
any email links though.
-Kevin.
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