Originally Posted by weeksie31
mate this is fake. nobody ever asks you to update 'billing records'.
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True, this is 99.999% likely to be a fake. The thing to remember though is that regardless of whether it is or isn't, as long as you shut that e-mail without entering or clicking anything and use your IE (or other browser) favourites link to go to e-bay, paypal or whatever, you are ok. These spoof e-mails don't actually take you to paypal or whatever and hijack your details. Rather they usually take you to a site the spoofer has set up (often using ip masking to make the address look kosher) by basically robbing the graphics from the original site which is a piece of piss to do. As long as you're on the actual site, you're ok, providing there's not a trojan infection or similar on your system.
I've used E-bay for 2 years, on-line banking for 5 and a half years and am a member of countless websites. I have NEVER, EVER received an e-mail from ANY of them asking me to input ANY of my user details. They simply DO NOT send e-mails asking for that info. EVER. As such, the best way is just delete any unsolicited e-mail alleging to be from these sources without even opening them, to be sure you're not inadvertently inviting adware, spyware or more sinister trojans, keyloggers etc onto your system. (Although I also don't know anyone who has ever actually had a keylogger on their system in over 15 years of PC use).