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