Credit Card Declined - eBay Email Scam
3rd January 2004

This aw-confirm@ebay email is a scam ...

This spoof email takes the form of a text email with a disguised link (see image below).

The email text states that your credit card was declined when 'eBay' attempted to charge it. This is of-course, a complete fabrication, and using the disguised link will result in a forged eBay page appearing in your browser (see images below).

The link is disguised to appear to be a genuine ebay.com link, but it actually sends you to http://213.122.85.155. See our article for more about disguised links. This IP address resolves to British Telecom Internet and therefore has nothing to do with eBay at all.

If you have received this hoax email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

Take a good look at the following image, because this
hoax email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...