Ebay Account Update - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
20th February 2004

"Dear customer, you have been billed for $15.00 recently. Please update your billing information at eBay Billing Center."...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This eBay email (see image below) is a spoof and part of a phishing scam which includes a bogus eBay web page (see image below) which aims to convince users to give up their personal and financial information.

The email contains a button which links to the bogus eBay page and the URL reveals that it is in no way associated with the online auction giant - http://210.78.22.113/verify.htm which resolves to JiTong Shanghai Communications  in China.

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.

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