The threat of account suspension could lead many to give up their eBay and email accounts user names and passwords to the wrong people...

This spoof eBay email (see image below) presents you with a bogus eBay sign in type of page, which also requests for your email account log in details.

The seemingly simple rule of thumb that eBay would never ask for this information is fine, but the email has the look and feel of a genuine eBay request. It uses graphics and script called up from eBay's own servers and has little in the way of clues to its malicious nature.

Submitting any of the information requested would result in that data being forwarded to the perpetrators via a form to mail service operated by win.net. This service has been set up to send the data on to a Yahoo Inc email account (best_electronics00@yahoo.co.uk).

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 Email ...