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eBay’s already moved towards sending official emails to your My eBay "Messages" area.
My only problem with this is that I can go for a couple of weeks or more without logging on to eBay at all, which pretty much eliminates the usefulness of any time-sensitive messages. — Ty Who is mostly just a slightly skewed Donna Reed A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. –Edward Abbey
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muttered something like: My only problem with this is that I can go for a couple of weeks or more without logging on to eBay at all, which pretty much eliminates the usefulness of any time-sensitive messages.
Same here. About the only time I actually log in is if I’m buying something (or even more rarely, selling something). And I just don’t buy that much. -Bertha — Newspaper editor: We’re looking for a new food critic, someone who doesn’t immediately pooh-pooh everything he eats. Homer: Nah, it usually takes a few hours.
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I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. I wonder where their mailing lists come from. I’m not so much of a frequent user of either system, and I get hardly any spoofs (I think 3-4 in my lifetime). It sounds as though people in here get a fair number of them. Was there a time that people put their actual email addresses on their auction pages or something?
400 million email cd’s that "marketers" sell to "email marketing campaigners" (blehc spammers).
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Believe it or not I have one email address set up for nothing but ebay business and I have never received a fake email trying to get my password. I never use the address for anything but ebay though.
I currently have seven eBay selling accounts, each with it’s own email address which matches the eBay ID associated with it. ex: JackAss2= eBay ID Each email address is used exclusively to conduct transactions (selling only, no buying). Two of those IDs get spoof/phisher emails 10-25 times per week. The others get none. I can only conclude that it’s a past customer(s) who has harvested the ID/email address and sold it.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof. That is a very clever idea. Have you suggested it to eBay or PP? Buck No, I have not. I always seem to get either a) No response. b) An unhelpful response that says. Should you have any further problems , please contant us. But of course, any further responses are just as useless. c) Someone who is just totally thick. I once told them about an eBay seller who was selling MP3 players at about $0.99, but the carriage was $100 or something. It was clearly done to avoid eBay fees. The person said it was OK to charge $100 carriage, as long as you are made aware. She could not seem to get it into her thick skull what I was getting at, so I left it.
A message I read after this clarified that they have already implemented it. The string isn’t in the subject line, but in a meta line in the header. YOu got your wish 
Buck — But that’s just my opinion.
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I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof. I’m not so silly that I have ever fallen for these spoofs, but their frequency is annoying to say the least. Of course, an email with the right subject line should not be assumed to be from eBay, since the emails are sent unencrypted. But it would make filtering them a lot easier
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof. I’m not so silly that I have ever fallen for these spoofs, but their frequency is annoying to say the least. Of course, an email with the right subject line should not be assumed to be from eBay, since the emails are sent unencrypted. But it would make filtering them a lot easier
EBay already does this. All you need to do is filter for your name, which is never included in spoof e-mails. It’s not in the subject line, but a filter is still easy to set up. http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/name-userid-emails.html Everything I know, and then some: http://www.auctionmyths.com
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I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies.
I wonder where their mailing lists come from. I’m not so much of a frequent user of either system, and I get hardly any spoofs (I think 3-4 in my lifetime). It sounds as though people in here get a fair number of them. Was there a time that people put their actual email addresses on their auction pages or something? MP- — "Learning is a behavior that results from consequences." B.F. Skinner
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I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. I wonder where their mailing lists come from. I’m not so much of a frequent user of either system, and I get hardly any spoofs (I think 3-4 in my lifetime). It sounds as though people in here get a fair number of them. Was there a time that people put their actual email addresses on their auction pages or something?
I still do. I only changed my username from my actual email address when they forced me to, on the last possible day.
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If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof.
That is a very clever idea. Have you suggested it to eBay or PP? Buck — But that’s just my opinion.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. I wonder where their mailing lists come from. I’m not so much of a frequent user of either system, and I get hardly any spoofs (I think 3-4 in my lifetime). It sounds as though people in here get a fair number of them. Was there a time that people put their actual email addresses on their auction pages or something? I still do. I only changed my username from my actual email address when they forced me to, on the last possible day.
Believe it or not I have one email address set up for nothing but ebay business and I have never received a fake email trying to get my password. I never use the address for anything but ebay though.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know about others, but I get lots of spoof emails that are supposed to come from eBay or Paypal. These are difficult to filter out, as I do get genuine mails from these companies. If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof. I’m not so silly that I have ever fallen for these spoofs, but their frequency is annoying to say the least. Of course, an email with the right subject line should not be assumed to be from eBay, since the emails are sent unencrypted. But it would make filtering them a lot easier EBay already does this. All you need to do is filter for your name, which is never included in spoof e-mails. It’s not in the subject line, but a filter is still easy to set up. http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/name-userid-emails.html
I was not aware they were doing this at all, but it is certainly not done on emails as it states, although the page suggests they will do this. Paypal need to do the same.
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(Not replying to anyone in particular) Just curious: What is in a "real" PayPal or eBay email that you can’t find out by opening your account? eBay’s already moved towards sending official emails to your My eBay "Messages" area. Kris I junk ‘em all
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – If would all had a second (low security) password that could be set up in eBay, it would make spoofs much harder. Let’s assume I set a second level password of "fred". Every time eBay or Paypal emails me, they put "fred" in the subject line. Now I can set up a mail filter, knowing that anything that appears to come from eBay, but does not have fred in the subject line, is definately a spoof. That is a very clever idea. Have you suggested it to eBay or PP? Buck
No, I have not. I always seem to get either a) No response. b) An unhelpful response that says. Should you have any further problems , please contant us. But of course, any further responses are just as useless. c) Someone who is just totally thick. I once told them about an eBay seller who was selling MP3 players at about $0.99, but the carriage was $100 or something. It was clearly done to avoid eBay fees. The person said it was OK to charge $100 carriage, as long as you are made aware. She could not seem to get it into her thick skull what I was getting at, so I left it.
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