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HI Folks_ Just recd this in my in box-- Am I reading this correct--they have a New SOftware/Ant-Fraud Program to Track us by our Home pc??

You Techy guys--Please help me understand this?? Thanks!

BY the way- this is from Ebay Trust And Safety Director...

Trusted Selling with Identity Confirmation
One of the ways criminals attempt to defraud people on eBay is by gaining access to member accounts with well-established reputations which they then use to set up listings in that person’s name. They gain this access often through a phishing email that convinces an unsuspecting member to click a link and enter their User ID and password.
To protect the Community against this type of fraud, beginning today, eBay will start noting which computers members typically use to conduct their buying and selling activity. After our data collection phase, sometime in June eBay will begin verifying our sellers when they list an item to ensure they are logging in from the same machines they have successfully used previously – usually a home or business computer.
If you are a seller, and you attempt to list an item from a different computer – for example, from a PC you are borrowing in a hotel or library – eBay will make an automated call to the phone number you have registered with us to confirm it is really you. We may also prompt you to verify your identity in other ways.
Initially, this identity confirmation process will only be applied to selling, although we may be extending this to other high-visibility activity in the future.