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Safe Harbor Department Notice
26th August 2004

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

Report Summary
Date Reported
26th August 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
eBay <aw-upd@ebay.com>
Subject
Safe Harbor Department Notice
Format
HTML
Method

Submitted form data on spoof webpage is forwarded to a local script.

Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content

http://171.66.118.53:82/aw-cgi/SignIn.html

disguised as:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?signin=1&user=3124&notice=2480133428

traced to a server in San Francisco, USA

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. The spoof email pretends to be from eBay and requests verification of account details on the spoof webpage.

2. eBay never send out emails requesting details like this.

 

" Dear eBay Member, Your bank has contacted us regarding some unauthorized charges of your credit card via the eBay system."...

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 Safe Harbor Department Notice (2480133428)

Dear eBay Member,

Your bank has contacted us regarding some unauthorized charges of your credit card via the eBay system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your eBay account. Please sign in to eBay using the link bellow, and update the requested information. Please verify all the info requested to be accurate. None of the personal information requested will be stored on our system, everything is used only to verify that you are the rightful owner of the account and of the credit card linked to your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and we would like to thank you for your cooperation.
Please use this link to verify the security information:

http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?signin=1&user=3124&notice=2480133428

Respectfully,

eBay Trust and Safety Department

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