FYI - advertised a car on autotrader yesterday and got this email today. It does not matter what password/email you put in the next page takes you to a page to input your card details. Web address at the top does not belong to autotrader.


From: "Auto Trader" <email@communicate.autotrader.co.uk>
Date: 7 June 2013 18:16:36 BST
To:
Subject: Important: Account Security Update Notice
Reply-To: email@communicate.autotrader.co.uk



Important information about your account

Dear Autotrader Customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure we have detected a slight error in your
Autotrader online account.

This might be due to the following reasons:

A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of address, email address)
An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within our systems.
You account was accessed from different locations/ip's at the same time.

Please click the link bellow to complete this verification process.

Click Here




Get more money for your car by selling it privately

With over 10 million people looking for cars on Auto Trader each month, there's no better place to get the price you're looking for.

This is an Auto Trader service based email. You will not receive any marketing messages via email unless you have expressly requested them.

Trader Publishing Limited, Auto Trader House, Cutbush Park Industrial Estate, Danehill, Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire RG6 4UT.

Registered in England with company number 3909628.

Did you put in your actual user name and password at all?
If you did you've just given all your info to them anyway.

Smelled bullshit at "dear autotrader customer"
They'd use a name if you're registered