eBay Phishing Scam E-Mails (14)

During the past year, I received many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use "official" looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a website such as EBay, Paypal, America Online, banks, financial institutions. They generally imply that your account will be suspended or deactivated unless you click the link to the webpage that is linked from the e-mail. Sometimes they say that someone is trying to use your account or this is done for "security" purposes. Once you are at the site, they will ask for personal information. You may be asked to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received. However, if you are still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.

Place or Update Credit Card on File

Dear eBay,

During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with eBay. This might be due to either following reasons:

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

Your credit card on file with eBay

Card number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-7679 (Not shown for security purposes)

Expiration date: 02/07

Please sign in to your eBay account and update your billing information:

http://signin.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&ssPageName=h:h:sin:US

If your account information is not update, your ability to sell or bid on eBay will become restricted.

Thank you,
eBay Billing Department

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Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:12:21 +0530
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Subject:	Place or Update Credit Card on File
From:	"eBay Inc." <Update@eBay.com>