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REPORT SUMMARY

Date Reported
28th February 2004

Apparent Sender
eBay

Subject
Safety Measure - Please Confirm You Account

Senders Address
(spoofed)

eBay Inc.- Security Center
<security@
ebay.com>

Content
complete and bogus
ebay sign in page

Spoofed Web page/site?
No

 

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eBay - Safety Measure - Please Confirm You Account - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
28th February 2004

 

A genuine looking eBay sign in page hits mail boxes in this Phishing Scam ...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This spoof eBay email (see image below) is a forgered eBay sign in page.

We found that any information entered into this form and submitted is processed through a script located within a Lycos (UK) user's web space. When we checked, we found that the user's daily quota of 150 processes had been reached within the first 12 hours, so some of us are falling for this scam.

We cannot emphasis strongly enough that eBay would NOT send such a page to its users. If you receive any request for action form any site, do not follow links or fill forms in an email. You should instead, manually type the URL of the site in question, log in and interact with your account that way, and that way alone. If there really is a genuine need to take any action, you will be requested to do so once you are 'signed in' in this way.

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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eBay - Safety Measure - Please Confirm You Account - Spoof Email Phishing Scam

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