Open now: reactivate your eBay account - Email Scam
12th January 2004

This 'system generated' email with form to 'reactivate your eBay account' is a scam ...

This spoof email completely lacks any explanation and just consists of a forged eBay form with the title 'Please use this form to reactivate your account'.

This forged eBay form has an email address coded into it (valuenchync13@verizonmail.com) which receives any data supplied and submitted via a CGI form to mail script stored at sitenames.com (Site Names, Austin, Texas, USA). The information requested includes your eBay user name, password, credit or debit card and bank account details as well as your name and address.

If you have supplied any information into this email scam, please contact eBay immediately so that they can secure your account.

If you have received this 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 email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

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