Best ebay email scam I've seen so far
 

Bet this one fools a lot of people


From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: <sales@*******.com>
Subject: eBay Registration Suspension
Date sent: Fri, 14 May 04 07:24:14 GMT

Valued eBay Member,

For security reasons your eBay account has been blocked due to
several unsuccessful login attempts, made by you or someone else.
As a result, your access to buy or sell on eBay has been restricted.
According to our site policy, you will have to confirm that you are
the real owner of the eBay account.
To reactivate your account, please click the link below, fill the eBay
verification form and then submit as we will verify your identity and
reactivate your eBay account.

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...ity&ssPageName


(If the link fails to open by simply click it, just copy it into the adress
bar of your browser and press the enter key.)

Your account will be fully functional immediately if the submited
information will be succesfully verified.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a
warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your
membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe
that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you,
our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to
verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

Regards,
Safeharbor Department
eBay, Inc.


The link in the email actually propagates to http://210.70.253.37/images/.,/index.html

Wow, thats an amazing scam...

What people come up with these days, unheard off.


Oh and welcome to the internet.

I've seen identical scams for collecting aol info

i almost fell for one of those scams before. good that ive asked about it on the ebay forums

What's worse I think the stat was around 1.6 million people fell for stuff like that last year and gave up all their info.

:1orglaugh

:(

yeah I actualy had to double check on that one.

anyone looking at bikes also, shitload of scams in there right now. All of them have 0 feedback and location says canada

lol old shit

Exact same scam, exactly, that I got for paypal as well. Same wording, same everything. The thing of it is, Ebay and Paypal will never send you anything that says "Dear user" or the like. They always use your real registered name in their correspondences, this statement comes right from the company itself.

I've reported that scam a couple of times now. The scammers always seem to continue operating for some reason though.

That's not really that nice of a scam, Let me throw one example together right here that would steal money and compromise the password as well since I'm bored as hell

Dear valued PayPal Member,

As PayPal is growing to be the largest online bank in history, we must continue to expand by advertising on next years Superbowl.

Because we couldn't have done this without you, we've randomly selected 150 members to receive this E-Mail offer. The first 25 members to send $250.00 in funds to a specified paypal account will have their First and Last names featured on the commercial!

Please continue by accessing our secure website and verifying your login information

Paypal.com > Super Bowl Commercial Entry

Thank You!
Paypal Member Services



Sorry for the spelling errors, but yeah, people can be much more creative and attract attention better... especially because that would work with the subject line "You have been selected to appear on PayPal's Superbowl Commercial!"

The only thing I hate more than a scammer is uncreative scammers

seriously, who would actually sit there and enter their credit card, bank account #, routing #, SSN, PIN #, drivers lisence #. if you are truely that stupid, you deserve to be taken advantage of.

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