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eBay - TKO NOTICE: Please verify your identity
28th March 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

 

Report Summary
Date Reported
28th March 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
suspension@ebay.com
Subject
TKO NOTICE: Please verify your identity
Format
HTML form
Method
submitted form data is sent to a remote PHP script
Bogus Web Content?
NO
URL of web content
N/A
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. eBay do NOT send forms like this by email, always access their site by entering the URL directly into your browser's address bar and not by using any link in any email.

 

eBay and email account user names and passwords are sought in this spoofed email ...

 

This spoof eBay email (see image below) contains a form in which you are asked to emter your eBay and email sign in details. This kind of phishing scam aims to hijack your eBay account.

Any information submitted is processed through a remote PHP script at http://66.193.230.227/.....

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 ...

eBay - TKO NOTICE: Please verify your identity

 

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