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Rating: This one again depends on you not looking at the link. However when you do you get a number, instead of a Website Name or address. The Number is 212.50.191.10 with the http:// in front of it.
Then a very creative Email message to join the millions of people who list on Ebay..

I cut out the logo and part of the commentary in order not to promote this email further.
The  scary thing about this email is the way it links. The text, everything is part of a jpg image or a picture. The entire picture is linked. So when you put your cursor on a link on the mail you get the same link each time. Click on the respond button and you get the page and not the URL that is listed in Item URL.
NEVER click a link in an email. GO DIRECTLY  TO THE WEB SITE by entering the URL in your browser window. Always check the URL in that window to make sure the URL is the right one.  When in doubt do not enter personal information.
Worse yet is that this one did not come as an email from EBAY but as an email from Tackle Discounts. Since I am in the fishing business this may have actually been targeted from one of my websites.

One way to see how this is a picture.. highlight the text in the Ebay message above.. You will not be able to. You will get ONE single highlight of the whole image.

  This email is a bit scary. The message that came with the link was very good. The Link went to that numbered URL rather than a name URL.. Example of Name URL ..www.Ebay.com
Again never click a link in an email that has to do with your financial life. Go to the website directly and check. All banks, Paypal, and Ebay use interior messages, located ONLY On their sites. They will send you a message if there is a change, but the legitimate email will tell you to log in.. and NOT HAVE a link in the Email to do so.

Details
Return-Path: <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Received: from rly-yc05.mail.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.205.148]) by air-yc01.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINYC14-1db47a5d66c2ce; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:58:01 -0500
Received: from mail.com ([211.179.125.128]) by rly-yc05.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC55-1db47a5d66c2ce; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:57:53 -0500
Reply-To: <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
From: "eBay" <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Subject: eBay Registration Suspension
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 23:57:53 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
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charset="Windows-1251"
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X-Priority: 3
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-AOL-IP: 211.179.125.128
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 1:2:428692256:9395240
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT:
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_helo : n
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_822_from : +
Message-ID: <200802030957.1db47a5d66c2ce@rly-yc05.mail.aol.com>