# Possible Ebay email scam question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 17, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488 "2002-05-17T03:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488/1 "2002-05-17T03:10:00Z")
[quote] Dear eBay member! Your information in our eBay file, was marked (flagged) as incorrect and/or (fraudulent). To avoid any inconvenience concerning an interruption of your service membership, in future. Please take just a moment and update your eBay billing file. Remember to “doublecheck” all the fields for any possible mistakes. To respond and update your information , please click on the web address below. If that does not work, please cut and paste the entire web address into the address field of your browser. \Update, Verify and Confirm!\ When I was going to reply to them asking about it, I found that the reply was to [SafeHarbor@earthlink.net](mailto:SafeHarbor@earthlink.net) and not at ebay. When I tried to open the link, I got nothing. Anyone have advice on this? I am hesitant to email them if it is a scam. I do have an ebay account, but I have not recieved anything like this before. Ebay’s contact links are pretty worthless also for this kind of thing. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488/2 "2002-05-17T03:32:49Z")
has scam written all over it… just trying to get your credit card number most likely ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488/3 "2002-05-17T06:13:16Z")
Most likely, the site has already been reported and has been shut down, but in the future if you get one of these suspicious emails go here to send the email with full headers to eBay: [http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-RS.html](http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-RS.html) Select: Member Problems \> Contact Information / Identity Offenses \> A user is representing oneself as a as an eBay employee when they are not. Also, is your user ID your email address? Most of the people who receive these emails have ID’s like this. You might want to consider changing your ID. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488/4 "2002-05-17T12:26:44Z")
The URL takes you to a site hosted by “Alabanza, Inc.” out of Balitmore. If it were eBay, it would be hosted by Ebay. This is a scam and a half. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-ebay-email-scam-question/109488/5 "2002-05-18T03:59:25Z")
Thanks everyone! And Friggae, I hadn’t found that. I get one of these about once a month advertising something, but this one seemed a little too true. Thanks for the links!