RE: Fraudulent use of ebay's name

From: Rob Shein <shoten(at)starpower.net>
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 15:34:39 EST

I've gotten something similar to this, from paypal, about a month ago. The text was different, but the underlying statements (corruption of account info, log on here to fix it...) were the same. It had graphics from paypal's site, but the links that were of any real consequence went to a paypal-esque domain that was not theirs (and was actually offline by the time I read the email that morning).

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From: Ragnar Paulson [mailto:ragnar@wanware.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:52 PM To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Fraudulent use of ebay's name

I received the email following this (headers included) on Saturday. It's pretty clear to me that EBAY didn't send this and I've informed them. However perhaps the text outside the obvious formail header is a pretty good attempt to deceive, pehaps there should be more a more widespread warning.

Regards,

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Ragnar Paulson                   ragnar@wanware.com

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edy:

Dear eBay User,

It has become very noticeable that another party has been corrupting your eBay account and has violated our User Agreement policy listed: 4. Bidding and Buying.

You are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller if you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats or are the highest bidder as described below. If you are the highest bidder at the end of an auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller, or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement. You received this notice from eBay because it has come to our attention that your current account has caused interruptions with other eBay members and eBay requires immediate verification for your account. Please verify your account or the account may become disabled.

Click Here To Verify Your Account - <A
HREF="http://paypal4.netfirms.com/">eBay Verification Process</A>

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This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com Received on Wed Nov 20 00:36:16 2002