Re: Everyone (off topic)

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n,

When you get spoof emails from people claiming to be from ebay, which

I get a ton of ones saying that they paid for some certain item and

will report me to the police, forward the email to spoof@... and

then delete it. This lets ebay trace the origin of the email so it

can be followed up on.

Any mail that ebay actually sends you will be able to retrieve in

your " My ebay " section if you are a registered user. They do not

send it to your , excite, msn or other email address any longer

because of the amount of spoof mail. Just thought I'd share what I

know about it all...

>

> in case you may need to know.

>

> I'm getting alot of bogus email about ebay

>

> These are bogus emails:

> (And I haven't even used ebay) So I can imagine if someone is

buying or

> selling on ebay how that may be confusing. (They may even be

trying to make some

> think that a person got the wrong email address and you might feel

inclined to

> help them by opening the email and sending a note that you received

the mail

> by accident.)

>

> These are the subject lines of bogus emails.

> 1. Member asking a question,

> 2. About your unpaid balance on an item # (whatever number it is)

> 3. Question about item number (whatever number it is)

> These emails are trying decieve people. So if you shop on ebay use

a

> seperate screen name for that. If you sell on ebay you should Have

them call you

> instead of sending an email about an item. That should be the

terms. OR if you

> prefere use a seperate email account specifically for ebay. They

may have

> email accounts now for sellers to receive questions. If not, you

can use

> or MSN hotmail and tell the buyer to use a specific code word that

you choose

> in their subject line to ensure that it is from someone who has

seen your ebay

> ad.

>