eBay TKO Notice: Account Verification - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
25th February 2004

Confirm your account using the button provided or your account will be restricted ...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This spoof eBay email (see image below) demands that you use the button to confirm your account information. The button would, of-course, open a bogus ebay page.

The bogus web content was located at http://scgi2pula.com/..... but has since been removed by its hosts, Yahoo Inc.

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 spoof emails, 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.

Be vigilant and treat all non-personal email as suspicious until you can confirm otherwise.

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