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An e-mail is under circulation in the name of e-bay Fraud
alert which appears to be an attempt at phishing for critical information from the
unwary Netizens.
Netizens may kindly take steps not to fall prey.
A copy of the mail received today by the undersigned was as
follows:
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***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice*** |
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eBay Fraud Mediation Request
Date:
Sat, 31 Jul 2004
You have
recieved this email because you or someone had used your account
to make fake bids at eBay. For security purposes, we are required
to open an investigation into this matter.
THE FRAUD
ALERT ID CODE CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ATTACHED IN OUR
FRAUD MEDIATION REQUEST FORM, IN ORDER TO VERIFY YOUR EBAY ACCOUNT
REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS.
Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614
(Please save this Fraud Alert ID Code for your reference.)
To help speed up this process, please access the following form to
complete the verification of your eBay account registration informations:
http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00937614
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Please Note:
If we do not receive the appropriate eBay account
verification within 48 hours, then we will assume this
eBay account is fraudulent and will be suspended.
The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your
eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat
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We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together
to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc.
Please do not reply to this e-mail
as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot
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trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay is located
at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.
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The header information of the mail is
Return-path: <root@loki.smarttalk.com>
Received: from mx2 (xcat2-a.vsnl.net [172.16.28.172])
by pop1.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14
2003)) with SMTP id <0I1P00GEI36MAC@pop1.vsnl.net> for naavi@vsnl.com;
Sat,
31 Jul 2004 08:05:10 +0530 (IST)
Received: from source ([172.16.28.178]) by ldaps ([172.16.28.172])
with SMTP; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:52:17 +0530
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by mx2.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14
2003))
with ESMTP id <0I1P00GMV35FB2@mx2.vsnl.net> for naavi@vsnl.com; Sat,
31 Jul 2004 08:04:32 +0530 (IST)
Received: (from root@localhost) by loki.smarttalk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3)
id UAA01325; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:30:50 -0600
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:30:50 -0600
From: "aw-confirm@eBay.com" <aw-confirm@eBay.com>
Subject: TKO Notice: ***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***
To: naavi@vsnl.com
Message-id: <200407310230.UAA01325@loki.smarttalk.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
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X-pstn-levels: (C:62.7687 M:96.5825 P:95.9108 R:95.9108 S: 2.4579 )
X-pstn-settings: 3 (0.1000:0.2000) p:14 m:13 C:13 r:14
X-pstn-addresses: from <aw-confirm@eBay.com>
Original-recipient: rfc822;naavi@vsnl.com
The hyperlink (Removed in this document both in the
copy of the mail and here) in the mail
http://211.202.3.208/event_1201/popup.files/.eBay/eBayISAPI.php?MfcISAPICommand=SignInFPP&UsingSSL=1&email=&userid=
The IP address appears to be located in South Korea and belongs to
Hanaro Telecom Inc.
Shindongah Bldg., 43 Taepyeongno2-Ga Jung-Gu,: SEOUL
I request any information available on this mail and the attempted
fraud to be sent to the undersigned so that the information may be placed
for the notice of the public.
Naavi
July 31, 2004
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