From: John M Powell (jp_at_iwillbefree.com)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 19:56:38 PDT
> What I am looking for is an auction on which I can bid to make sure I can
still bid
> at eBay.com. Obviously, I'm not too eager to win, I just want to confirm I
can bid.
> Would any of you folks have an auction running on which I can bid with a
reasonable
> chance of not being the winner?
Frank,
You were wise in not putting your user/password into the email form. And no
worries - eBay hasn't ended your account. This is a scare tactic used by
scammers to harvest people's eBay account info. Often what happens in this
case is they take someone with a good reputation and sell plasma tvs, or
some other product, ripping people off with YOUR good eBay reputation. Like
PayPal, eBay NEVER requests your user/password in an email. Never log into
an account of any sort via an email. Not unless you really don't care about
what they do with that info.
Toss the email. It wasn't legit.
John M Powell
http://www.iwillbefree.com/
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