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TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
31st August 2004

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

Report Summary
Date Reported
31st August 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
aw-confirm@ebay.com <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
Subject
TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
Format
HTML
Method

Spoof webpage captures entered details and forwards them using a local script.

Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content

http://212.226.171.17/.secure/safeharbor.verify.ebay.com/login.php

disguised as:

https://signin.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1

traced to a server in Espoo, Finland

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. Email requests you visit spoof eBay site to keep your acount active by entering your details within the next 72 hours. Details are captured by the spoof webpage and forwarded to a local script.

2. eBay never send out emails to their users requesting details like this.

3. URL of link gives the impression the connection is secure but is not. Any details you enter will be sent out unencrypted over the internet as well as straight to the scammers. Be careful!

 

" You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised."...

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.

 

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