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eBay TKO Notice: Account Verification
26th May 2004

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


Report Summary
Date Reported
first reported Feb 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
aw-confirm@ebay.com
Subject
eBay TKO Notice: Account Verification
Format
HTML (we have now received 2 versions of the same email - see image below)
Method
button or link leads to bogus web content - submitted form data is captured by a remote third party script and sent to an AOL email address (conturi_aol@hotmail.com)
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
feb report -
http://scgi2pula.com/ (resolves to a Yahoo user's web space)
both May reports - http://flowerkisses.com/ebaysecuritycheckdate&pos0
&viewa&headb.html.txt (resolves to Velocity Networks in the USA)
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Note the URLs of the forged web pages - nothing like the genuine eBay domains that we should be seeing.

 

" Dear eBay member, We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your eBay account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was used by a third party without your authorization. ..."

 

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: Account Verification

 

The bogus web page ...

eBay TKO Notice: Account Verification

 

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