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Urgent Notice from eBay
25th May 2004

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


Report Summary
Date Reported
17th & 25th May 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
eBay Billing Departament <aw-upd@ebay.com>
Subject
Urgent Notice from eBay
Format
HTML - coded to look like plain text
Method
disguised link leads to bogus web content - info entered into the forged eBay sign in page is captured by a local php script
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
17th May 04 - http://signin.ebay.com.1.vg/ - traces to web space in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
25th May 04 - http://aw-upd.ebay.com.vyr.us/ - traces to Web Space in Germany
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Note the URLs of the bogus eBay sign in pages which is actually a sub domain of 1.vg or vyr.us

 

" Dear eBay member, Our records are showing that you have unpaid activities on the eBay site. "...

 

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 ...

Dear eBay member,


Our records are showing that you have unpaid activities on the eBay site. This
might happen because your billing information is out of date.
Please use the link below to signin to eBay,check and if necesary update your
information we have on file.


Once you have updated your account records your session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in
cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.

To update your records click here:
http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=0&pUserId=&

eBay Trust and Safety Departament
http://www.ebay.com/

 

The bogus web page ...

Urgent Notice from eBay

 

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