Date Reported 24th February 2005
Apparent Sender eBay
Return Address aw-confirm@eBay.com <aw-confirm@eBay.com>
Subject ***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***
Format HTML
Method Spoof email links to a spoof webpage where victim is prompted to enter their details believing the site is genuine. Details are then forwarded to a local script and captured.
Bogus Web Content? Yes
URL of web content http://ebay.clients-security.com/.eBay/
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from eBay asking you to confirm your account data by clicking on the link. You will be taken to a spoof login page where your details will be captured by the phishers.
2. eBay never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL of spoof website disguised as " http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=x".
4. Real URL looks quite like eBay at a glance, but IS NOT! Don't be fooled...
5. Website traced to Huntington Beach, USA .
" You have recieved this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. "
If you have received this 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.
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