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BEWARE Ebay method to track suspended users
 

Today I received an email in a box that I had used with my original suspended ebay account from Bank of America telling me that there had been fraudulent activity on my account. I then realized that I had NEVER given this card my email address, I pay my bills by mail, so I looked at the source of the email, and guess who it was? Yes, EBAY! They must have used my credit check info from paypal, and utilized a credit card of mine to send a email to track me. This is the only explanation that I can think of.
Is this legal? Has anyone else seen this?
Lesson learned: BURY ALL OLD EMAIL ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH EBAY! AND NEVER OPEN EMAILS FROM ANYONE YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH IS DIFFICULT THOUGH WHEN YOU ARE SELLING ONLINE.

It sounds like a phishing scam.

hopefully, but the return path was ebay.com, but I am a tech dummy so I hope in this case you are right.

Can you past the headers (edit out your email address of course) here for us to analyze?

here it is


Return-Path: <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Received: from rly-mc02.mail.aol.com (rly-mc02.mail.aol.com [172.20.118.144]) by air-mc04.mail.aol.com (v120.9) with ESMTP id MAILINMC42-1054746596a374; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:39:19 -0500
Received: from ebay.com (sql1-200.outer-net.com [209.50.76.200]) by rly-mc02.mail.aol.com (v120.9) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINMC21-1054746596a374; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:39:07 -0500
Received: (qmail 8437 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2007 04:26:21 -0000
Date: 23 Nov 2007 04:26:21 -0000
Message-ID: <20071123042621.8434.qmail@ebay.com>
From: alerts@account.bankofamerica.com

is this phising? thanks guys

Definitely phishing. outer-net.com is a small ISP, eBay wouldn't be using that to send emails.