here is the email I received that sounds like the one Michelle and Julius received. It is obviously a fake. Ebay just doesn't do this sort of thing.
----- Original Message -----
From: Julius
To: TEC AstroClub
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: [TAC] Rep: Fraudulent behaviour regarding your ebay account
That's a SCAM, Michelle. I got the same a month ago. If you would've fill out the form, with all the personnel information, including credit card #, scammer can do some damage.
Also, I get that Microsoft upgrade scam all the time, attachment is a virus. They quiet down lately.
One has to be very careful now days about what's in the "Inbox".
I use a small "FREE" program, called "ePrompter". It can check multipule emails addresses at once, for mail. There, I checkmark any emails that I don't know about, at the next log in, deletes it.
Julius