Ebay Account update information - Phishing Scam
18th February 2004

Scammers claim that they are eBay and state " currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures " to steal your info...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This eBay email (see image below) includes a web form for you to provide your personal and financial information.

Any data entered would be processed through a form to email script stored at www.slowmartin.com and then forwarded to a yahoo email address (usere12000@yahoo.com)

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 ...