It's called "phishing". Millions of these things are sent to email
addresses generated by computers. Sometimes they are valid address, most
times not.

We all know what it is... well, most of us do anyway. In case you
misunderstood, the OP was writing about how he hadn't been to the ebay site
in over a year, then he did... once, and immediately started receiving these
emails. His point was, that perhaps ebay is doing something fishy (pun
intended), in allowing his email address leaked to the phishers once he
logged on to the site. Sounds phishy to me. Possibly a coincidence as
well... who knows.

--Mike

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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:54:08 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Check this out.

I was looking at Clam's Johnson Stinger ad on eBay yesterday - I
haven't been to eBay in over a year.

I just checked my email and there were four PayPal fakes concerning
purchases I made all to different sellers.

So that would seem to indicate to me, and I'm not the smartest guy on
the face of the planet, that something is rotten at eBay.

FWIW, I get the Pay Pal messages frequently, and I never go to Ebay. I
sure as hell don't click on anything in the Pay Pal messages.


Same here. I've never bought anything off e-bay and have no intention of
doing so.
I used to get the e-mails from paypal talking about my account..and I
should reply to the e-mail ASAP blah blah.
Guess they'll have to find some other mark to play their scam on.

It's called "phishing". Millions of these things are sent to email
addresses generated by computers. Sometimes they are valid address, most
times not.

I have received them from banks that I have never done business with. The
senders only have to have a couple of unsuspecting recipients reply and
provide account information, then the accounts are drained.