eBay Important Notice - Phishing Scam
16th February 2004

This spoof email asks you to update your personal information...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This spoof eBay email (see image below) takes the form of a forged eBay web form requiring user name, password and email address and password.

Once provided and submitted, you would arrive at the genuine ebay.com sign in page while your information is relayed to the scammers.

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!

The Email ...