ebay query

[rico]

I sold some stuff on ebay a few weeks back. I set up my account to just automatically take the fees from my account.

However I keep getting emails from ebay. One that says I owe money and if its not paid my account will be suspended and another saying that the money will be taken automatically.

These contradict eachother, but is it normal ebay procedure? IE keep nagging for money even when the DD is set up and will take cash in less than a week?

Cheers

[mcflurry]

Are you sure the emails are from ebay and not from a scammer?

[rico]

They look pretty legit to me...

[tollytuff]

sounds very much like a scam. i get dodgy ones claimimg to be from ebay, and that my account m will be suspended if i dont update my account. bin them.

[cirks]

legit messages from ebay will also be shown in your 'messages' folder under Myebay. Look there. If they're from a scammer then they won't appear.

[Neil_H]

One option is to send the email to Ebay's 'spam collecting' address and they will tell you if it's genuine or not. You can check how your account is set up in My Ebay, if all your details are correct I wouldn't worry about it.

[zumbruk]

If it's genuinely from ebay, it will contain your ebay user name - a spammer will not be able to obtain both your email address and ebay user name.

Better still is to set up a special email account for ebay and use it nowhere else. It should never receive spam if you never publicise it anywhere, and all emails apparently from ebay to any other address can be deleted. (This is what I do.)

[Scraggles]

open the email, find the originating ip address and then check it out with a site like www.dnsstuff.com, this should give ebay as the owner, if not ebay then blacklist and ignore

aka phishing, they hope that youwill reply to their link which looks like ebay and shows www.ebay.co.uk in the address bar, but is usually a dodgy script pointing u anywhere but ebay

recall ebay stating that they dont email people asking them to "verify" their details

[rico]

Cheers guys. Will check tonight