REPORT SUMMARY
Date Reported
Date
of distribution
9th to 13th October 2003
Apparent
Sender
eBay
Subject
eBay Security
Request
Senders Address (spoofed)
not supplied
Content
form to input
User ID and
password
(see image)
Spoofed Web page/site?
Yes
Web page/site
content
N/A
Web page/site origin
URL
http://
64.70.167.86//...
OR
216.219.253.234/..
Identity Theft method
form data is
captured using
PHP script
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eBay Security Request email scam and
bogus web site
Date
of distribution 9th to 13th October 2003
This eBay hoax email scam was in distribution from 9th to 13th October 2003 and we an image of the hoax email. 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...
The email scam purports to be from eBay and states that your account has been suspended due to a plicy violation. There is a form provided for you to update your eBay account information (by providing your user name and password and which would have taken you to the bogus eBay web page when you submit the information). Unfortunately the bogus web page was closed when we looked into this scam, so we do not have an image of it to show here. However, the link pointed to the following URL...
PLEASE SEND US YOUR
EMAIL HOAX SCAMS
click here to
use our online
report form
On
the 9th October...
http://64.70.167.86/...........
On the 13th October...
http://216.219.253.234/...........
These are both hosted by Valueweb.net, and have nothing to do with eBay whatsoever.
This email serves as a good example of the kind of hoax email you will see in these Identity Theft and phishing scams...
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