Is This A Scam?

[Last Action Pimp]

i have just recived this e-mail from aw-confirm@ebay.com

It Says -

Dear valued eBay member,
Our IP sentinel has detected a strange IP using you eBay account and it might be used for illegal activities.If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records by March 05th.

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 problems.

To update your eBay records click here:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate



Thank you,
Account Management.

As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.

do you think i should contact ebay?

[valleyboy]

contact e-bay through their fraud/spam panel thingy... I doubt very much if an official e-bay address starts with cgi1 in it... Ive had one or two iffy e-mails asking to update my e-bay account.. but it wasnt to my registered e-mail addy with e-bay.. so alarm bells went off straight away...

[Last Action Pimp]

contact e-bay through their fraud/spam panel thingy... I doubt very much if an official e-bay address starts with cgi1 in it... Ive had one or two iffy e-mails asking to update my e-bay account.. but it wasnt to my registered e-mail addy with e-bay.. so alarm bells went off straight away...

yeah the same i use my hotmail for my ebay this was form my ntl hummmmmm . .. .

[northwind]

Blatant phishing. Also, the respond by date is in the past ;)

[Gnan]

if you check the actual URL (not the display text) you will probably find it goes to an IP address rather than the ebay URL.

[philipMac]

So, basically the answer is always yes.
They are always scams.
Always.

If you are ever wanting reasurrance that they are, in fact, definately scams, pick a string out of the mail
Stick it in quotes.
Stick it in Google.

You will then have this page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sentinel+has+detected+a+strange+IP+usi ng+you+eBay+account%22&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial
or similar.

Sad but true.

Oh yeah, looking at ips, doing hosts IP doing nslookup, whois, whatever, is fine, usually. But, basically, only believe the outcome of these lookups if they confirm your suspicions.
People can do clever things blah blah, make ips look like others. Ignore all of these mails. Nice and simple.

[northwind]

I treat every email from the bank, Paypal and Ebay as scams... Which is why I keep on getting suspended from EBay for not paying my bill :roll:

[Guyon]

Ebay, paypal etc do not include links in any correspondence to you, if they want you to update your details you have to do so by accessing the site in the normal way. This is for the obvious reason that the link could redirect you.
Therefore its a phish (in my opinion). Don't reply as they then know they have hit an active account/email address.

[Diveboy]

No its not a scam. If it was a scam then why whould they email me 4 times today with the same email?

.........Oh right :-k #-o

[kwak zzr]

ebay's great! its just a great shame that so many people are out to spoil it.

[Stig]

I actually fell for this. And entered my log details. :oops:

I realised how dumb I had been as soon as I had done it. So logged on to EBay and changed all my details. :roll:

[philipMac]

Seriously lads, every single email you get off a bank/ebay etc, find a string with an odd word in it, like in the above "sentinal", use that for the string you put into google, and search for that string. Keep trying with lots of strings. Try without using quotes.

Bull**** emails will get onto the Web fast, Google will pick them up fast, and you can reff your stuff from there.

[northwind]

Ebay, paypal etc do not include links in any correspondence to you,

Sure they do. I've got a fees one today which I know to be genuine, includes a link. Notifications of questions on auctions have a "respond now". Loads of Ebay emails have links in. The difference is, they're all written in something approaching primary school english, whilemost of the phishing ones aren't. If they put the same effort into their grammar as they do into their presentation, they'd catch a lot more people...

[PsychoCannon]

Forward it to spoof@ebay.co.uk and they will deal with it.
Same with any mail you get like this from anyone, most banks etc have addresses for this.

The more they recieve the easier it may be for them to track this thing back to the people sending the crap and if your lucky, arrest them.

[akbarhussain]

Ebay will always include your own login name on any correspondance.

Although the email appears to come from an Ebay address (it has actually been spoofed), the link will not take you to the actual Ebay site.

[PsychoCannon]

I actually fell for this. And entered my log details. :oops:

I realised how dumb I had been as soon as I had done it. So logged on to EBay and changed all my details. :roll:

Well that will waste the scammers time when they try the now duff details :)
Even better Ebay could log the IP that tries to connect and track em that way :D

[Filipe M.]

I actually fell for this. And entered my log details. :oops:

I realised how dumb I had been as soon as I had done it. So logged on to EBay and changed all my details. :roll:

Well that will waste the scammers time when they try the now duff details :)
Even better Ebay could log the IP that tries to connect and track em that way :D

Jeez, this must be the day when missing people show up! :?
Glad to see you back, Psycho! :)