I got one a few weeks ago, and I got another one now. The one I am pasting below must be a fraudulent one. Be very careful with these. They are very deceptive. They have the colored ebay logo and links to real eBay pages and eBay home page They look like you are replying to eBay. If you get one, you can copy it and send it to eBay (to email address in first post above) along with the header, and delete them. The local CBS station in NY had a story about this last night. One problem (if you reply to them) is that they can run auctions with your user ID, etc., and have the winners send THEM the checks. Other more serious problems where they ask for social security number, bank acct number, etc. (not in the one sent to me, though).

Here is what I got:

THE HEADER:
Status: U
Return-Path:
Received: from god ([194.102.90.153])

by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 18NM5VT83NZFji0

for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:54:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "aw-confirm@ebay.com"
To: "Chipe"
Subject: Security Check.
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:54:12 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Message-ID:
Reply-To: "aw-confirm@ebay.com"
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_NextPart_595630195166918"

THE EMAIL MESSAGE:
aw-confirm@ebay.com2/25/03 3:54 PMaw-confirm@ebay.com

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