eBay Security Measures: Verify your identity - Email Scam
6th & 10th January 2004

Is eBay really performing regular maintenance of their security measures? - Not this time, its a scam ...

This spoof email takes the form of a fake eBay form (see image below).

The red text at the top of the form states that you must use the form to update your account due to regular maintenance of their security measures. This is of-course, a complete fabrication, and using the bogus form will result in any data entered being forwarded to the scammers.

We found that the email had been coded to send this form data to the scammers at a Yahoo email address in both cases (kostas_ro@yahoo.com or mariuses2004@yahoo.es) via a form to mail processing service offered by server-mail.com. This would occur blindly and while your browser opens the genuine eBay.com sign in page.

If you have received this hoax email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

Take a good look at the following image, because this hoax email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...