New Email Scam!

historygeek

From : <aw-confirm@eBay.com>
Sent : September 14, 2004 11:42:03 AM
To : fuddleduddle@hotmail.com
Subject : Verify eBay Account



SafeHarbor Pre-Suspension


Dear customer,

We regret to inform you that your eBay account will be suspended due to the violation of our site policy below:
* Misrepresentation of Identity (User) - Representing yourself as another eBay user or registering using the identity of another.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.
Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.
According to our site policy you will have to confirm that you are the real owner of the eBay account by completing the following form or else your account will be deleted.

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?SecureConfirmation&bpuser=1

Our apologies for this unconvenience.
Thank you for using eBay!

tbirde56

Yep, I got that Monday. An obvious scam. The misspelled 'unconvenience' shows they don't even bother to use a spell checker or know the English language that well.
Forward all suspected scam mail to spoof@ebay.com.

Makarovii

<< <i>Yep, I got that Monday. An obvious scam. The misspelled 'unconvenience' shows they don't even bother to use a spell checker or know the English language that well.
Forward all suspected scam mail to spoof@ebay.com. >>



And don't forget to include the header so they can, hopefully, track them down!

Askari

I got a different one yesterday which seemed to confuse eBay with PayPal. It even had the "awconfirm" id that eBay uses, which suggests that they were pinged to eBay.

satootoko

eBay has already confirmed that to be spam, after I forwarded it to spoof@ebay.com.

Askari

I got one today entitled "Account Investigation Important Notice". It's much more realistic than the usual sort. Since most people -- myself included -- have never seen an actual email notification of a detection of suspect activity, the only way you'd catch it would be if you firmly understood that eBay doesn't want you to respond to emails, but to go to the site and log on from there.

Philip

Today I received my first spam regarding my Ebay registration. The e-mail appears to have originated from services@eBay.com. It required to verify my credit card details and even boldly included the following:

Card number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-4322 (Not shown for security purposes) Expiration date: 11/05

I didn't know I had a credit card. Maybe I should put it in use

Conder101

<< <i>eBay has already confirmed that to be spam, after I forwarded it to spoof@ebay.com. >>


One problem with that is that spoof@ebay.com has been known to autorespond to submissions saying that anything forwarded to them did not originate at ebay. Including even simple bid confirmations.