REPORT SUMMARY
Date Reported
12th September 2003
Apparent
Sender
eBay
Subject
eBay Account
Verification
Senders Address (spoofed)
various
Content
text and a cloaked
link to a fake
eBay
web page
(see images)
Spoofed Web page/site?
Yes
Web page/site
content
n/a
Web page/site origin
URL
http://
n/a
Identity Theft method
Web form information
is captured and
relayed to the
scammers
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Spoof
eBay Email Hoax and Fake Web Site
12th September 2003
This spoof eBay email was distributed on 12th September 2003 and we also have images of a spoof web page that it would have sent you to. These are just images of the originals, so there is absolutely no code included and none of the links or buttons will now work. The images shown have been reduced 80% of the original size. Identity Theft is the aim of the email, and subsequently to commit fraud with the information that you may inadvertantly supply...
The spoof email states that eBay could not verify your account information, and asks you to update and verify your account information, and a link is provided for you to do that. The link is disguised to look like a genuine eBay link, but it is not, and will actually send you to a spoofed eBay web page located at http://bandullubizness.netfirms.com/ (which clearly has nothing to do with eBay whatsoever).
The spoof web page had already been removed when we received this email, so we do not have an image of that page to show you.
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The spoof email...
The page that you arrive at from the link in the email is a web form which asks for your eBay user ID and password, Credit/Debit card details, Banking details, etc (see image below). Once the "Continue" button is pressed, you would arrive at the confirmation page (see below) while the information given was sent to the scammer(s) by email with the clever use of some Javascript (it was being distributed to to 4 separate email addresses at yahoo, aol, juno and netzero).
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