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

This spoof eBay email (see image below) is a forged eBay sign in form which further requires your email user name and password.

Any data submitted into this bogus form is sent to a remote PHP script, located at http://teapa.myvnc.com/which resolves to a dynamic DNS and web forwarding organisation in the USA.

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 ...

Posted with many thanks to Amy Rogers (www.homeschoolid.com) who has tirelessly provided us with many examples of spoofed emails that have been reaching her and others inboxes in recent months. We greatly appreciate Amy's help in helping us to building awareness of the growing problem of Phishing Scams.