eBay - Important notice! - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
1st March 2004

" We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been selected for this maintenance. "...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This spoof eBay email (see image below) comes in HTML format with genuine graphics drawn from eBay's own servers just to add a sense of authenticity.

Submitting the required information into this form will send that data on to the scammers via a form to mail processing service at corpex.com

Once you've supplied this information, you have every chance of losing control of your eBay and email accounts to the fraudsters. Hijacked eBay accounts are frequently used to sell high value items for the scammers to earn money from unsuspecting eBay buyers. The buyers would not, of-course, receive the goods.

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.

The Spoof eBay Email ...