FPA NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension - eBay Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 11th August 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM-HIGH

Email Subject:

FPA NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension

Apparent Sender:

eBay

Return Address:

ebay@ehoy.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://200.80.130.210/roundcubemail/logs/.ebay-ISA
PI-ws-login/index.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Learn More, 2)
https://signin.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Si
gnIn&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk, 3)
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/education/spooftutori
al, 4) www.ebay.co.uk, 5)
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/privacy
-policy.html, 6)
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/user-ag
reement.html

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

11942-163219-420956

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at eBay by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

eBay never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!

EBAY SENT THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR REGISTERED
E-MAIL ADDRESS.
Your registered name is included to help
confirm this message originated from eBay.
Learn More.

FPA NOTICE: EBAY REGISTRATION SUSPENSION -
BREACH OF USER AGREEMENT

During our regular update and verification
of users accounts, we could not verify your
current information. Either your
information has been changed or incomplete,
as a result your access to use our services
has been limited. Please update
your...

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