Ebay
Spoof Email Posing as Maintenance Notice Seeks Account Details
- 02-05-2004
- 11
We just received the following email from what appeared to come from a legitimate ebay email address
From: aw-confirm@ebay.com [mailto: aw-confirm@ebay.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05 2:40 AM
To: XXXXXXX
Subject: eBay Regular Maintenance
We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures.
Your account has been selected for this maintenance.
Protecting the security of your eBay auction account is our primary concern,
and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Comments are welcomed!
In order to update your account information, you need to complete the following process!
If not, your account may behave unnormally and errors may occur without notification.
In order to complete the maintenance process press the following button:
Knowing ebay NEVER asks for personal info we forwarded it to the Trust and Safety dept. The response. Did not come from them and was a "spoof" email attempting to get our personal account info including pay pal account and password etc. They are now looking into it and take this form of fraud very seriously.
If you receive this email do not answer it. Forward to ebay Trust and Security.
Company: Ebay
Country: USA
State: California
City: San Jose
Site: ebay.com