eBay email hoax and web page
26th October 2003

This hoax email was in distribution from 26th October 2003 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 hoax email states that eBay could not verify your account information , and asks you to update and verify your account information. The email contains a link, which has been disguised to look like a genuine eBay link which it is NOT. The link takes you to a hoax web page as part of the scam...

If you have received this hoax 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.

Take a good look at the following images, because this hoax email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...

The Fake eBay Page...

The hoax web page looks like a genuine eBay page and has been constructed using code from eBay's own servers. It is clearly apparent that the page is spoofed when you see the URL/web address in your browser's address bar -

http://211.37.185.30:7301/
OR
http://211.44.215.237:491/

which has absolutely nothing to do with eBay whatsoever, and is in fact a site hosted by hitel.net in the Korean Republic.

This eBay web page hoax contains a form for you to provide your eBay user ID and password and credit card information. If you provide this information and submit it, it is relayed to the scammers with the use of a PHP script (which is a common process in recent email scams) while you are sent to the genuine eBay.com home page.