eBay - Update Your Registration Information - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
25th February 2004

A bogus eBay Registration Information form is the content of this spoof email phishing scam ...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This spoof eBay email (see image below) is a bogus web form which asks that you supply your eBay and email address user names and passwords, etc.

Any information given and submitted is forwarded to a PHP mailbomber script located at http://computersystemit.com/
update/registration-information.php. The computersystemit.com domain shows registrant contact information for an individual in Exxex, England, UK and is hosted on Yahoo Inc's servers. After submitting the information requested, you would be sent to www.ebay.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!

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