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eBay Change E-mail
6th May 2004

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


Report Summary
Date Reported
6th May 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
aw-ebay@ebay.com
Subject
eBay Change E-mail
Format
HTML
Method
disguised link leads to bogus web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
http://www.pages-help-ebay.com/eBayISAPIdllUserVerify/index3.html - resolves to a Yahoo user's web space.
RISK LEVEL
HIGH
WARNINGS

1. The URl of the forged web page is constructed to look genuine. However, the words which precede the ebay.com part and which are spaced with dashes makes up the entire domain name. pages-help-ebay.com is in no way associated with eBay.

 

Email recipients may act without thought when they receive this unexpected notice of a change in their email address on their account ...

 

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 ...

Thank you for submitting your change of e-mail address request.
Instructions on completing the change have been sent to your new email
address. Once the process is completed, your eBay-related email will no
longer be routed to this email address.
Change of E-mail address request was made from:
IP Address: 168.143.113.124
ISP Host: bonnie.cyberpass.net
If you or anyone with authorized access to your account did not make
this change, please go to
http://www.ebay.com
Thank you for using eBay!
http://www.ebay.com

 

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