eBay Safeharbor Department - Email Scam
9th January 2004

Have eBay really introduced this Security Check by email? - Not this time, its a scam ...

This spoof email is a forged Ebay form requiring your user name and password (see image below). The email very briefly asks that you complete the form as it is a new 'security check'.

The email is coded to send any data submitted through skincarec.com's PHPFormMail script to a Yahoo email address (vanilatu9@yahoo.com).

If you have fallen prey to this scam and have submitted information, we strongly advise you to contact eBay's live support so that they may secure your account. Accounts that are hijacked in this way are often used to list high value goods on eBay. The scammers then accept payments but do not send the goods.

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 ...