eBay Email Hoax and Fake Web Page
sent out on 18th September 2003

This hoax eBay email was distributed on 18th September 2003 and we an image of the hoax email. This just an image of the original, 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...

The hoax email requests that you 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 spoofed web page.

If you provide this information and submit it, it is captured by the scammers with the use of PHP script (which is a common process in recent hoaxes) while you are sent to the genuine eBay.com home page...