eBay confusion

[j4]

I got an email from eBay saying:

"Dear customer, you have been billed for $15.00 recently. Please update your billing information at eBay Billing Center."

I can't find "eBay Billing Center" on eBay. I don't know what they want me to update. I don't even know why I've been billed $15.00, unless it's for the thing I ordered on eBay that never turned up, which the company said they were chasing up, but they haven't got back to me...

Confused & irritated of Cambridge.

Update: Oh, okay, it's just spam. I feel all stupid now for letting it worry me. *sigh*

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[k425.livejournal.com]

The person in America wasn't on AOL, were they? AOL's blacklisted lots of ISPs as spamhosts.

[imc.livejournal.com]

One of NTL's outgoing mail relays got itself listed at bl.spamcop.net last week. No idea on what grounds, since SpamCop has removed about 90% of the useful information that used to be present on the listing-query page (allegedly because `spammers were using the information to finesse the system') but I'm mildly confused because a relay, by definiton, shouldn't be the originator of any email.

In other news, I did get one of these eBay things on Friday, but I didn't see it because it came from a blacklisted open proxy and thus went straight into the spam folder. They didn't forget to put the link in - they just assumed you'd view the message in HTML (where the link is a JavaScript button) and their plain-text translator didn't copy the button into the text.

The server they want you to visit (210.78.22.113) is the same one named in a PayPal spam that I did see (six times in all) because I have service@paypal.com whitelisted. It's still up, despite several reports to the IP block owner, though verify.html has now disappeared. Instead, the site now appears to contain a clone of LloydsTSB (including a copy of a letter advising customers to beware of Internet fraud but beginning with, of course, a request to validate your account ).