Watch out for an Email from ebay - Fraud

Cameo CC

We just received this Email -

Dear eBay user,
As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our member accounts.
You are requested to visit our site by following the link given below
http://cgi3.ebay.com:aw-cgieB ayISAPI.dllSignInRegisterEnterInfo&siteid=0co_partnerid=2@66.230.230.51/ 7e3baycgi/

Please fill in the required information.
This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk free environment to run your auctions, and maintain the eBay Experience.
Thank you
Accounts Management

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We have forward this Email to ebay and asked them to verify.

I think this might be a frauduant Email

Todd

CLASSICS

thanks for the heads up

Twowood

Thanx Todd. I was stung once.I Neverwant that to happen again. Twowood

cosmicdebris

I got that one too. If you know html and look at the source you will see you are redirected to a site other than ebay's.

AbesNeighbor

Thanks Todd!

Where were you 8 months ago when I bought into this scam, had to cancel my credit card and correct my credit reports because some idiot used my Identity! :-)

(I was the other idot --- just filled in the blanks)

Dan

Cameo CC

AbesNeighbor - I almost was today.

Todd

ScarsdaleCoin

yup...more and more frauds...I posted one on paypal the other day....thanks for the heads up

DanC

It's a scam.


Neucom, Inc. NEUCOM (NET-66-230-192-0-1)
66.230.192.0 - 66.230.239.255
NetTuner Corporation (Webmasters.com) WEBMASTERS-20031402 (NET-66-230-230-0-1)
66.230.230.0 - 66.230.230.255

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flaminio

One thing to keep in mind when confronted with a URL like this:

http://cgi3.ebay.com:aw-cgieB ayISAPI.dllSignInRegisterEnterInfo&siteid=0co_partnerid=2@66.230.230.51/ 7e3baycgi/

Everything to the left of the "@" sign is ignored by the browser. So, the real site this URL points to is not ebay.com but rather 66.230.230.51, which DanC whois'd above.

PayPal scams of this nature are also very common. Be careful out there.

walkerman

I received one of these and had it about half filled out when something didn't feel right. What in the world did ebay need my atm pin #for. I remembered a warning message posted on ebay's sell your item page.I went there and sure enough this is exactly what they warned about. They plainly state that they will never ask for information like this in an email nor will they ever use a link to their site to extract that kind of info. I forwarded the form to them at their request.( spoof@ebay.com).Their reply was that this definitely did not come from ebay. They further informed me that if they ever needed info regarding my account,I should go to "my ebay" and use the safe harbor access provided there. Some one said this scam is originating from Russia with the Russian mafia involved but I'm unable to confirm this. I expect more of this to happen in the future probably with a different format so just beware and read ebay's statement and advice again. Regards Dave