Just a heads up. I received this this morning the link ask for SSN, Debit Card Passcodes, all kinds of ish that Ebay doesn't need to know. I've already reported this to Ebay.

From : ebay Billing Department <update@ebay.com>
Reply-To : update@ebay.com
Sent : Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:37 AM
To :
Subject : eBay Update your account informations


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 the 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.
If your account information is not update within 48 hours then your
abilisty to sell or bid on eBay will become restricted.
Please follow the link below and login to your account
and renew your account information
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate

Sincerely,
eBay customer department

 

you're not the first. ebay and paypal send you that b.s all the time. well not exactly ebay and paypal but someone who poses like them. yeah defenetly something to watch out for. always go to your paypal or ebay account and check if they still work.
also this was on the news. and ebay officials said that they never send out emails like that.

 

I know most people are aware, but some people who are newer to the scams may need the heads up. Also do not login through that link and if you ever have...change your password.

 

change my stuff frequently...also, my credit card info that is on paypal, has a VERY low limit, by design.

 

for me for some reason, when i didn't know it was a scam, clicking the link didn't do anything. it would open up the browser, but it would never display the page.