Look at this SCUMBAG- Ebay Phishing
 

I got this e-mail:
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Dear eBay Member,
During our regular update and verification of the accounts,
we couldn't verify your current information.
Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
Please update and verify your information by signing in your account.

If your account information is not updated within 5 days,
your access will be restricted.


please go to the link below and enter the information required:
http://www.ebay.com/accounts/member/...ter/?dll874432

*** Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A Response ***

Sincerely,
eBay Account Review Department
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Without looking at who it was addressed to (not a real user on my domain) I clicked the link. It goes to an IP:

http://65.254.49.162/

VERY convincing to the casual user. |pissed|

WHOIS info brought up:

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Cached Whois: Cached today
Record Type: IP Address
IP Location: United States - Georgia - Lilburn - Global Net Access Llc
Reverse IP: No websites hosted using this IP address


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OrgName: Global Net Access, LLC
OrgID: GNAL-2
Address: 55 Marietta St, NW
Address: Suite 1720
City: Atlanta
StateProv: GA
PostalCode: 30303
Country: US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.gnax.net:4321

NetRange: 65.254.32.0 - 65.254.63.255
CIDR: 65.254.32.0/19
NetName: GNAXNET
NetHandle: NET-65-254-32-0-1
Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNS1.GNAX.NET
NameServer: DNS2.GNAX.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-12-29
Updated: 2004-03-31

OrgTechHandle: ENGIN7-ARIN
OrgTechName: Engineering
OrgTechPhone: +1-404-230-9150
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I went to Ebay and looked at the site map quickly to see if there was someone I could report this to. Couldn't find anything - at least not as I quickly scanned it.

Who can I report this scumbag to in order to get him in trouble?

This is pure identity theft. How many 1000's or 10's of thousands or 100's of thousands of those e-mails went out? |sad|

I took a print screen of the 'ebay site' too.

I get them all the time. From Ebay to PayPal To CitiBank and everything in between. Usually there is a tip off. or a feeling something isn't right. For me it's normally "I don't have an account there."

I've gotten the Citibank and PayPal one's also. I happen to be with Citibank and PayPal.

But I knew full well, Citibank would never send out a mass e-mail.

The PayPal one looked 'off'.

However, my father printed the Citibank E-mail out and showed it to me when I saw him asking if it was real.

You know, I truly feel bad for a 1st time PC buyer these days. If their PC isn't ruined by a bunch of spyware/scumware then the virus program they never knew they needed to update will let something slip in.

Then they have to deal with SPAM and those well crafted e-mails with links to sites that LOOK quite official. Poor bastards.

On the other hand, I did get 300 minutes of free tanning sessions by helping one of the ladies at a tanning salon get rid of all the spyware and saved her old PC.

I used the last of it 2 weeks ago and now that I need to pay for it again- I think it's too expensive. Especially when ya consider the new 2257 law will destroy the industry. :D

Oh my the sky is falling again. ;)

I've been getting almost the same mail but it is made to look like it is a central US bank. They have been running the scam off a site hosted in Japan.

I have built a webmaster anti-sky-fallout shelter. Those who get to join will be determined by lottery, based on who uses my refcodes the most between now and armageddon. Don't say you weren't warned.

I vote that next time anyone gets any of this fake emails, we fill them out with fake info. Flood the assholes with so many BS forms that their heads fall off |lightsabe

I just used forward them to
spoof@ebay.com

I HATE eBay any more anyway...I had to close a very long time email account of mine due to getting sooooooo many of the bullshit emails

I ended up quitting any transaction on eBay....who can afford to have your account cracked? PayPal is just as bad

I had heard that by even opening the eMails that provided the
sender with access to your hd and the ability to scoure your
system for passwords and data keyword related...

but I don't have a clue where I heard that - but it was months
ago...

and I wouldn't recommend filling out any of the forms with
fake info - although you might be tempted to do so...
(I am not a lawyer and what I am about to say is merely
my free speech rights - opinion) but - to fill out banking
forms with fake information and transmit via the internet
or postal mail is fraud... and not worth the hassel for whatever
temporary moment of pleasure you'd derive from DOING
that in efforts to "hurt" them...

besides - do you really have TIME to waste - on them ??

:)

~Bell

It's possible that some might try to access your info just by opening the email but I haven't seen any yet. The e-mail program I use lets me disable HTML in the preview pane and treats it as an attachment. I generally pull off the attachment and view it in a text editor for malicious stuff before going to their form page.

As for filling out their forms.... if they were truely banking forms and not just some phishing expedition they put together then I would worry but since they are not real banking forms it isn't even an issue.

No, I don't have time to waste, but consider if everyone that received one took the time to fill them out with junk, how valuable would their results be. They would spend more MUCH more time weeding through the crap than the individuals who filled them out. Besides, it's my little way of screwing with them and it puts a little smile on my face to think some scammer is cursing at me for his wasted time |bananna|