leonard wrote:
Charles,

E-bay now has an internal message system that they use to confirm
messages.It goes like this they email you a message to your email address
and your internal ebay message center at the same time.If you don't get
both, then the email message if fake.
that way they no longer try to stop fake messages on the web(to time
consuming and expensive)

The only ebay messages I ever get that aren't fake are those telling me
an auction is ending.