Re: Mobile phone question, opening Stealth PP emails
I always keep my stealth accounts isolated on their own computers to lessen the chances of accidentally clicking on an email.
But yes, for eBay to see where the email was opened would require loading an image file. That file might be as small as 1 pixel, but it would still need to be an image file.
The way it works is, they send a unique image in each email. It will probably be named something like aeganlkfnhgalfghalknblknhuogtu6584564nhgo8ry8.jpg and when you retrieve the image, they see the IP address the image was retrieved from. It is called a "beacon". This is an oversimplification, but you get the idea.
Last edited by jeffweico; 12-21-2014 at 07:05 AM.
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