is this email kosher?
The link in the email leads to this page where I am expected to enter all my details including my bank details.
Has anyone seen anything like this from ebay before?
Ignore it, someone is phishing for your account details.
That link does not go to an EBay site.
Not only that, but the email is full of errors and bad wording.
Doesn’t eBay have some sort of “We’ll never ask you for your information” policy?
As a general rule, any communication asking you to perform a specific and required action, whilst still addressing you as ‘dear valued customer’, is a scam. If (for example) the bank wants me to drop in and discuss my misuse of the overdraft facility, they will address me by my own name.
Thanks all. I will report the suspicious email to Ebay.
I’ve been getting effing millions of these all of a sudden. Forward them to eBay (spoof@ebay.co.uk or .com) so they can track down the twat(s) responsible and slice their goolies off.
Damn, I love British slang. 
I’ve had about six of these in the last week. I’ve also had about three bank accounts frozen that I must have forgotten I had! How embarrassing. I wonder how much I’d put in them?
Twats have goolies? Either my knowledge of slang or of anatomy is severely in error.
And even ignoring the “dear valued customer” bit, any e-mail that tells you to do something like this, especially if it involves bank information, is a scam. Just like how you never give your credit card number over the phone unless you initiated the call, you never do so on the Internet, either.
These phising expeditions seem to come in waves. Every so often I’ll get three or four Ebay scams during a week and then nothing for a long time. They’re usually marked “TKO Notice/Account Violation” or some such. Some can look very realistic on their surface. The best rule of thumb is to flat out ignore any request for personal and/or account information through email. If these companies need that information they won’t ask for it through a channel such as email, that’s for sure. Sadly, I’m sure a lot of unfortunate people fall for these scams. 
I get a lot from various banks too. The funny thing is, never once have I received a scam purporting to be from a bank I’m a member of. 
Er, thanks for pointing that out. :smack:
Strangely, the Brits (and probably others as well) tend to words for the female reproductive organs to refer perjoratively to men.
In any case, if ever I got in the same room armed with a plank, a pair of hob-nailed boots and hypodermic syringe full of botulism, as an eBay phisher or that git who keeps trying to sell me V!agra…
I have never received a phishing mail that did not include numerous giveaways in the form of bad grammar or funny language. You’d think it would be worth their while to hire someone to iron out those kinks.
Um, I’ve got some time on my hands. Could use a few extra bucks, though.
Ah, you understand our colloqualisms!
Indeed ‘twat’ is a refence to a particular female organ. However it is intended in this context to be perjorative, and apply to either a male or female chap*.
Whose male organs you would then remove.
*chap applies to both genders, of course
I get them too which is weird because I DO NOT SELL ON EBAY. I have NO financial information on ebay, yet they keep wanting me to update it :dubious:
Paypal spoofers send out a high-quality email; no spelling mistakes on the email itself, or the linked webpage.
Of course, if I had a paypal account of my own, I might worry about this.