I have not gotten an email as that. And true You should never give out your password no matter who asks for it! That is a red flag for sure.

oh yeah, that was why I quit using e-bay.....paypal hacker. Thank goodness my bank contacted me because it was out of character for my use. I had a credit card but I didn't use it but only to register on Ebay and Pay Pal......I never used it, then charges began and they were going to India. The routing number they gave my bank allerted them and they called me. The culprit might not have been in India, but he sure thought he'd get three drafts that day and they'd called me and stopped it right then and two more came in. I think they got him......mean people in this world, you just can't be too careful. Blessings, Ruth

Thank you Butterflywing for posting this info. I've gotten about three of these emails but have deleted them because they "should" know my password (if it was ligit and not be asking for it, I'm thinking)....so now I will block them instead of deleting....oh, mine says windows hotmail, but my email is not hotmail, but a part of it I believe....msn. Anyway, thanks again for the info. Ellen

Great to share this kind of thing it really does help people who are not as computer savvy as others. mrspete brings up a good point....it may be a good idea to have one separate credit card (with a small amount of credit) for online purchases. It is much easier to track activity and your losses (hopefully none) will not impact as heavily as if on your regular line of credit.

Great advice. Sorry you had to go through this.

Thanks for the warning.

A good thing to have is your own email address in your contact list. Someone hacked into my email and sent a letter out to every contact I had as if they were me. As soon as I saw it I sent a letter out to all my friends saying it wasn't me. If I hadn't had my email address in my contacts I would have never known about this email.

I got an e-mail from "my internet provider" saying they were blocking my account because they thought someonelse was using it. I thought it was kind of strange so I phoned the company about it. They said to just delete it because they never send anything like that. Today I got 4 of the same e-mails!! DELETE!!!!! Don't OPEN!!!!