"-exray" wrote in message
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OH YEAH wrote:
WHAT? It appears you're quoting ME in your replies. This thread started
with someone talking about e-mails "appearing" to be from E-Bay - being
received. Others responded with how to perhaps deal with it. I jumped in
to say that if one gets a suspicious e-mail THOUGHT to be from E-Bay,
they send it to ..... Someone suggested that - that doesn't
work, that a blank e-mail would get the same reply. I proved that wrong
and posted the result of doing just that. I offered others to try it for
themselves.
Whoa, I did repeat said test and yes they have changed the format. As Syl
said, now it apparently only accepts forwarded mail. Well, I blanked out
a forward message and sent it Sunday afternoon. I got the initial canned
response immediately and the canned "answer" came thru yesterday evening.
Guess what. They said it wasn't from them. Go figure.
I wonder if anybody has received one that said is WAS FROM EBAY? I don't
think so. The point I was trying to disprove was your assertion that they
will inspect these requests and inform you of the results as if some of
these emails were valid. In a way they do just that but I don't think
there's as much inspection going on as simply hitting the canned "its not
us" button.
Don't get me wrong, I have no gripe with ebay and have a combined feedback
rating of 800 or so. By suggesting that some of these emails merit
inspection might lead one to think that some requests for acct info are
legit which is simply not the case.
-BillM
Bill,
"I" am not trying to argue with you. The fact they just changed formats,
well.... if they did it again today, it would still make fools of us both
for arguing about what "was".
Yes, when I tried it I got the response
shown, which did prove you wrong - TO A POINT - but not entirely. It still
doesn't mean they do "scrutinize" ALL e-mails. Maybe some. I will agree, to
a point it is canned. . I'm not saying you are completely wrong or I'm
completely correct.. The system isn't the greatest, we can both agree on
that. But it is all they offer! So, we deal with it.
But what I think is even more hilarious is my statement to you of replying
to the spoof sender to see their response, and someone else feels I'd be
harassing them by doing so - were it to be done. Man, I laughed my ass off
on that.
TRM