FW: e-bay

Fri Sep 26 16:34:02 UTC 2003

> From: Mike Tomasura <MTomasura at BradleyCaldwell.com>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: FW: e-bay
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:25:52 -0400
> 
> 
> 
> > I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from them.
> > 
> > Dear eBay user!
> > 
> > At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number
> > of accounts in the system during the database
> > maintenance. If you have an active account, please
> > click on the link below to update your credit card
> > information. If you have problems with your account, please let us know
> > at email support at ebay.com <mailto:support at ebay.com>

Nope!  It is a 'credit card harvesting scam'...  (Or whatever the term
dujour is today...)

Good for identity theft purposes and for stealing credit card numbers
to run up someone else's bill...

I mean...  Look at it:  Poor grammar, poor punctuation, ...

> > 
> > https://cgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInformation
> > <https://e%31bay.com/saw-cgi/?UpdateInformation> 

Also, if this is for real, it looks like eBay has bigger problems:
Connection refused to both of these URLs.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

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