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E-Bay help please



Kryten

New member
Dec 20, 2003
2,360
Here, there and every where
Could you please help me with e-bay?

I havce done nothing with the accouint for about two weeks, but recieved this e-mail:

Dear eBay customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures,

we have detected a slight error in your billing information.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information ( i.e.change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within our processors.

Please update and verify your information by clicking the link below:

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

If your account information is not updated within 48 hours then your ability to sell or bid on eBay will become restricted.

Kenneth Pavet,

eBay Safe Harbour Dpt .




then after following the link i get another e-mail a few hours later:




Dear valued 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. Please
update your records by July 30th.


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


eBay Update team
http://www.eBay.com



after followin the link it asks for my dad's credit card details and pin number, Is this correct or should i be worried?

Thanks in advance
 




poke

New member
Oct 19, 2003
989
no, y's it asking for a pin number?

is it not asking for the security code
 


sully

Dunscouting
Jul 7, 2003
7,925
Worthing
It's probably that you gave credit card details at some time and the expity date has now passed. Just need to update the details.

I had the same sort of problem that I couldn't fathom with domain registration a few weeks back.



mmmm missed the PIN number bit the first time. If that's for real, it's definately dodgy as nobody should ask for that.
 
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Grizz

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 5, 2003
1,483
Are your details out of date? Check first, because there are a stack of spurious emails that go around asking for ebay account details and then syphoning off your pin numbers/security codes etc.

I've used ebay for a year now and have never had an email like that from them even after my account has been inactive for a month.

Grizz
 






Kryten

New member
Dec 20, 2003
2,360
Here, there and every where
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spud-u-like

New member
Jul 13, 2003
11
Goring
Never give your pin number to anyone on the internet,ebay should not need a pin number just go onto ebay sign in and update your details this way.
Hope this helps.
Spud
 








brighton rock

New member
Jul 5, 2003
4,430
lancing
e bay are having lots of troble at the moment with false e mails asking for bank details they warn you of this in any e mail you get from them.
 


timseagull

New member
Oct 12, 2003
1,072
Mile Oak
Yeah got one yesterday and started filling it and then realised they wanted way too much info.

Reported it. Its fake!
 






Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
Wozza said:
Oh dear. By sending a reply you'll be put on a million and one spam lists.

Oldest myth in the book. They never check what comes back, and if they do, they classify it all as ISP bounce mail, hence they assume your addy is dead

Quick way to tell its dodgy - why would eBay use IP addys instead of the usual cgi.ebay.tld and scgi.ebay.tld? They never would.

Also, all eBay UK stuff is run out of Ireland, no way is there any Taiwan stuff here :D :D
 


Bad Ash

Unregistered User
Jul 18, 2003
1,905
Housewares
I had a very similar email from PayPal. Be very careful, they use HTML so that the links look valid, but when you actually click on them they'll take you to fake site.

I'd suggest if you every get a similar email and are concerned that it may be real, just login to the site as you normally would and see if you get any message/news items displayed.
 


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