FIB NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension - Phishing Scam
19th February 2004

Scammers use AOL web space to host their forged eBay web page in this Phishing Scam...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This eBay email (see image below) is a forgery which contains a disguised link to a forged eBay web page which aims to convince eBay users to give up their financial information.

The forged web page was being hosted in an AOL member's web space and has been removed already. There was no attempt to conceal the URL in the link so this scam does not constitute the convincing spoof that its predecessors do.

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 ...