It's a scam...delete it.
Sorry, don't quite know what else to say...
Could be a fake. Go into the ebay site not from the link on the email, but through the www.ebay.com
If you can log in, what u did was tell bad guys your password.
Change the password and u should be ok.
How do you know the email wasnt from the hacker and the password u went in went to him?
If you followed the link in the email, then you've been had. That's called "phishing": the email wasn't really from EBay, and the link didn't really take you to EBay. It took you to the phisher's web site, set up to look like EBay, where they fooled you into telling them your username and password.
You may also try to Google ebay customer service or fraud prevention (or some other combination of words).
The rule of thumb is: NEVER open or reply ANY emails that claim to be from ebay/paypal/your bank/email admin and want you to 'verify' your information. They are ALL scams.
Assume that if you have not made an inquiry that they are replying to, the email is fraudulent.
Dude...You gave your account password to a hacker. You've been had. Call EBAY now. NOW.
Go immediately to www.ebay.com directly (type the url in by hand), log into your real account and change your real password to something new. Do this right away.
It's a "phish" scam; delete it.
Anything from TEaseBay and payola pal is immediately deleted...twice and forever.
I got it, too. It's a scam.
How do I know? I've never used Ebay!
try this, from ebay help. good luck! :)
NEVER answer an email asking you about any account anywhere.
Due to the fact that our email addresses are on the department webpage, my boss and myself receive several emails of this type every day.
I laugh as I nuke these hacker emails and blacklist them!
Never respond to such an email.
Here's a link with some info:
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identitytheft/101303ebay1.htm
Ignore my previous post, p. I read your earlier comments.
Cancel the account through Ebay, and open a new one.
(Cut and paste into browser). This is the eBay page that addresses this problem. Towards the bottom it tells you what to do if you cannot login.
Sorry you're having this trouble. I wish you luck!
"A26 TKO NOTICE Restored Account" is a known phishing scam. I'm not sure exactly how you got locked out of your account, but it's possible that by opening the email you recieved a url redirect. Get a good anti-malware program and run a few scans before you type ANYTHING else you don't want compromised on your computer.
Speaking from experiance - it took months to sort everything out after I was hit by a Paypal fraud.
close your account.
never reply to an ebay email that takes you to a site where it asks for your name and/or password
ebays website has a fraud scam section for people in situations like yours; go read it. by the pay if you have paypal or anything in ebay you better shut the account down
Here are the google results for “A26 TKO NOTICE Restored Account”.
Don’t worry too much though. It looks like the risk level is “medium”, whatever than means.
I get those emails on a regular basis. It a phishing scam.
I suggest contacting ebay via email. They will give you an email address to forward this scam to.
Only trust the email that sent directly to your ebay account in ebay.