posted on December 11, 2002 10:17:26 AM
just found this on the news wire......
EbayUpdates.com - Watch Out...
Posted on Monday, December 09 @ 07:39:06 EST by john
Ebay (an non-Ebay) users have been getting this e-mail from "EBay Billing" with the subject of "EBay Billing Error". The text of the e-mail follows as well as the routing path. Further, a visit to the site that is refrenced in the email leads to a page that is javascript encoded. Right click is disabled to prevent saving of the page. An inspection of the source would also indicate that the creators of the page do not want users to see where their information is going. Finally, the WHOIS database entry for "ebayupdates.com" and states that the registrants were not eBay corporate but someone in Florida. This is a farily large scale attempt at gathering eBay users account and/or credit card information.
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Dear Ebay Member,
We at Ebay are sorry to inform you that we are having problems with the billing information of your account. We would appreciate it if you would visit our website [Ebay Billing Center] and fill out the proper information that we are needing to keep you as an Ebay member. If you think you have received this email as an error, please visit our website and fill out the neccesary information. That way we can make sure that everything is up to date! Again here is the link to our website. Ebay Billing Center
Joe Watson
Ebay Billing Center
Rep ID. 32A
Thank you for your business.
The Ebay Staff.
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posted on December 11, 2002 10:28:58 AM
"If you think you have received this email as an error, please visit our website and fill out the neccesary information."
posted on December 11, 2002 05:11:22 PM
I actually got one of these too. I can't believe people are stupid enough to fill out a form that requests address, credit card info, social security info. Why don't they just sign away their firstborn. People are idiots to fall victim to this sort of scam. I guess scamming is a good business. Lots of money, probably very light penalties. Esp. if you are conducting business from some far away 3rd world country.
