Ebay Security Measures (SafeHarbor) - Email Scam
9th January 2004

This Ebay Security Measures (SafeHarbor) email is a scam ...

This spoof email takes the form of a text email with a link (see image below) which leads to a forged eBay page.

The link leads to a page hosted on Lycos' Tripod.com free web hosting service. The page was removed very quickly and had already gone when we received the report. We still expect that the page included either a forged eBay sign in page or web form which captured data entered for the scammers use.

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 images, because this hoax email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...