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I've been getting unrequested messages from the eBay Developer Zone site over the last couple days about email address changes. I have a Developer Zone account, but I haven't touched it for months if not longer. I sent an e-mail to them about it, but haven't heard anything.
I just got yet another one of these and I think I see what's up. Check out the registered email address. Somebody found a hole.
(And in case you're wondering, no, this isn't some kind of phishing message. It's a text/plain message and the routing headers show it being received by my mail server directly from mxpool05.ebay.com.)
From: DevZonePassword@ebay.com
Subject: Forgot your Developer Zone username?
Date: May 26, 2006 10:45:12 AM EDT (CA)
To: hey.ebay@sql.inject.com'.or.''='
Cc: [OMITTED]
If you did not forget your username for the eBay Developers Program,
please ignore this email.
Your Username is: [OMITTED]
Your registered email address is:hey.ebay@sql.inject.com' or ''='
You can sign in to the Developer Zone at
http://developer.ebay.com/devprogram/sign_in.asp
If you have forgotten you password, you can request it at
http://developer.ebay.com/devprogram/ForgotPassword.asp
Thank you for being a member of the eBay Developers Program!
Sincerely,
Developer Relations
I've deleted some irrelevant comments along the lines of "please help me with my eBay problem".
Sorry, but this is not an eBay help forum! I'm just a guy with a blog. If you are having an eBay problem that you can't resolve directly, try their [dispute resolution service][1].
[1]: http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/disputeres.html
Yeah I have no idea why personal blogs are spammed.
But google did point me here while searching for how to send a user a message...
:)
i am trying to figure out how to contact ebay itself via email because 4 of the items i bid on were sent to the wrong city an no one is replying to me on how to get them back. by mistake i sent it to miami florida 33315 and it was suppose to be fort lauderdale florida 33315. what do i do??!!
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For some reason this post gets more spam comments -- by far -- than anything else on my blog. The spam comments almost never have anything to do with the content of the post; lately they're for prescription drugs.
I've become curious about the reasons for this. Any theories?