The WORST eBay scam email I have gotten yet....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Dear eBay Member,

The eBay Team from The Department of Payments and Fees Cost inform
you that the data provided by you can not be processed to charge the
monthly fees. Click on the link below to update your credit/debit card on
your eBay account so the monthly fees can be charged directly from
your credit/debit card.

http://signin.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInfo&siteid=0&co_verify=2478

If your eBay Account will not be updated in 5 days with a credit/debit
card your account will be suspended in conformity with eBay Terms of
Agreement paragraph 9 in which is stated that we can temporary or
permanently stop providing our services to you.

Thank you for understanding and using our services !

eBay Team

Department of Payments and Fees Cost

[trumad]

1. They've gotten good...

and very real looking... I got a scam Paypal notice the other day asking me for my info and credit card number... Like I said..it's very real looking... I know better because I am web savy but I wonder how many out there are getting ripped big time?

[olddem43]

2. This one is obviously fake because of misuse of -

language. No one in the US or UK would say "if your eBay account will not..." Almost all of them have something like that in them which leads me to believe they are from foreigners or at least poorly educated hackers. It sort of reminds me of the instructions included with Japanese products back in the 60s.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I liked the "Department of Payments and Fees Cost ."

You think they could have at least cut and pasted a few snippets from the eBay site.


http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/tomorrow.wav

[petronius]

4. Thanks, dude!

I've been needing to give E-Bay my new CC info, and I never got around to looking up the address. your post saved me a lot of time!

[Massacure]

5. Make sure you inform eBay of the scam.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. Prevention is getting better...

Already a dead link.