email from "eBay"

[evry1nositswindy]

Check out this email I got from "eBay" today.  Of course I didn't click on any  links and I forwarded it to spoof.  Anybody else get this?

[chapeau-noir]

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@chris13 wrote:

@a_c_green No, actually, I dont. 

@pburn Did I do something to irritate you? You posted 'this came from ebay thailand" which was not correct, IMHO.

I replied with an explanation that the suffix 'ebay.th' does not indicate it comes from ebay. You have to evaluate the fully qualified domain name/address to be sure. The OP to answer your question, received an email showing a source that suggests this IS what was used to send the email he/she got.

When I raise technical issues I show my work and share my experience. I am not always right, but I have no agenda. Hopefully someone benefits from knowing more about the ever-evolving techniques being used to be dishonest. If not, my apologies for interrupting the thread. Have a great day.

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I also wondered the same thing about source code, and found your post interesting and informative, and very germane. 

[reallynicestamps]

Did you run the email through a translation program to see what it says?
It is possible that it is from eBay India,though why it would end up with a US seller I have no idea.

Actually, I'm not sure if that is Sanskrit or Thai.

Google has a "identify language" option.

[evry1nositswindy]

@reallynicestamps  I just did.  It is Thai.

Dear evry1nositswindy,

We are updating User Privacy Notice in accordance with various changes 

To make it easier for you to understand what personal information we collect. and to give you more control over your data This is part of our ongoing commitment to being transparent about how we use and keep your information safe. This new update will take effect on March 24, 2023 and you don't need to take any additional action.

Major changes:

• More information about the personal data we collect. Purposes for which we use such information and how we disclose and process personal information within the eBay Inc. group of companies or to other businesses and service providers.
• More information about the data we process to comply with the new consumer regulations. Anti-fraud and taxes

Keeping your data safe and increasing transparency about how we use it is important to us.

You can read more about eBay's Privacy Principles and User Privacy Notice at the Privacy Center.

Thank you for being a part of eBay.

eBay Global Privacy Team

Once translated, it looks real.  Weird.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

Looks like a legit email from Ebay Thailand.   Why you got it & in Thai, who knows, but every now & then our pages come up in German.  I had Kanji in one of my messages from a buyer yesterday, though perhaps she had Kanji in her ID.  I think it's legit & yet another glitch.  

@evry1nositswindy   If you hover over the email address, depending on your mail client, you can see full details on who it was sent from.  I think this one is legit though & just misrouted. 

[a_c_green]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

@reallynicestamps  I just did.  It is Thai.

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...and the embedded link goes to https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/th/#subsite-dropdown, which is the Thai version of that page. If you want to see it in French instead, for example, change the "/th/" in that URL to "/fr/" instead, and it will display in French.

I agree that it looks like a language-choice glitch of some sort. I can confirm what others have said about seeing eBay pages suddenly switch to German (in my own experience) for no apparent reason. I suppose there's no  reason why they can't accidentally send out messages with a language error the same way. The Thai version of this message that @evry1nositswindy received would be sent out with the Thai language specified in the embedded link.

[eburtonlab]

At least one other user got a very similar message in Thai:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/Email-I-cannot-read/m-p/33651891/highlight/true#M400517

[the_fancy_fox]

As long as there’s no click here links in the email, probably legit. 

weird though

[a_c_green]

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@the_fancy_fox wrote:

As long as there’s no click here links in the email, probably legit. 

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There was one embedded link, the one I looked into that pointed to the User Privacy Notice (Thai version). You can cursor over it without clicking on it and your browser will show you the destination. (There were some other standard links visible in the page footer, such as for App Store or Google Play, but those aren't really the links of interest here.)

[pburn]

So not a Doppelganger URL, then, eh?

[a_c_green]

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@pburn wrote:

So not a Doppelganger URL, then, eh?

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Not that I'm seeing, no.

Incidentally, if you look at the main (English) version of this page at https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/  and scroll down a ways there, you will find a list of 17 languages in which eBay offers their basic corporate rules in PDF form. I would say it's likely that most if not all of those 17 languages were used as a master list for the translated forms of the page that were embedded as links in those outbound messages. I was able to bring up a few other language pages in that link we're discussing by guessing the correct two-letter abbreviation in the third field of that link (e.g. "de" gets you German, "es" gets you Spanish and so on): 

https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/de/#subsite-dropdown 

https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/es/#subsite-dropdown 

[chapeau-noir]

I've had pages in English come up with a French URL 🤔.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

@reallynicestamps  I just did.  It is Thai.

Dear evry1nositswindy,

We are updating User Privacy Notice in accordance with various changes 

To make it easier for you to understand what personal information we collect. and to give you more control over your data This is part of our ongoing commitment to being transparent about how we use and keep your information safe. This new update will take effect on March 24, 2023 and you don't need to take any additional action.

Major changes:

• More information about the personal data we collect. Purposes for which we use such information and how we disclose and process personal information within the eBay Inc. group of companies or to other businesses and service providers.
• More information about the data we process to comply with the new consumer regulations. Anti-fraud and taxes

Keeping your data safe and increasing transparency about how we use it is important to us.

You can read more about eBay's Privacy Principles and User Privacy Notice at the Privacy Center.

Thank you for being a part of eBay.

eBay Global Privacy Team

Once translated, it looks real.  Weird.

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The major difference is that my notice (in English) said "Dear (my first name)" rather than my ebay ID.