REPORT SUMMARY
Date Reported
3rd October 2003
Apparent
Sender
eBay
Subject
Security Notice!
Senders Address (spoofed)
various
Content
account review using
a disguised
link in
the email
(see image)
Spoofed Web page/site?
Yes
Web page/site
content
fake eBay
web form
Web page/site origin
URL
http://
verify-user.us
(hosted by Yahoo)
Identity Theft method
Web form
information
is
captured and relayed
to scammers via
sslpowered.com
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eBay Security Measures Email Hoax and Web Page Scam
3rd October 2003
This hoax email was in distribution from 3rd October 2003 and we images of the hoax email and bogus web eBay web pages that it sends you to. These are just images of the originals, so there is absolutely no code included and the links or buttons will not work. The images shown have been reduced to 80% of the original size.
The email hoax...
This email
hoax requests that you visit a site via the link provided to
help 'them' reduce the incidence of fraud following eBay's takeover of
Paypal. Using that link will send you to a bogus eBay web page.....
PLEASE SEND US YOUR
EMAIL HOAX SCAMS
click here to
use our online
report form
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The spoof web page...
The bogus web page has been constructed using code from eBay's own servers. It is clearly apparent that the page is spoofed when you see the URLs/web addresses in your browser's address bar -
'http://verify-user.us/Secure-SignIn/eBayISAPIdllUserVerify/aw-cgi/verify-accountdll/index.html'
which has absolutely nothing to do with eBay whatsoever, and is in fact a domain registered to an individual in Plaquemine, LA and is hosted by Yahoo.com
This forged eBay web page asks for your user IDs, bank and credit card information. If you supply this and press the 'Continue...' button, the data will be relayed to the scammers via a form/mail processing service operated by sslpowered.com while you arrive at a bogus eBay confirmation page.
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