eBay Billing Issues Email Scam
30th January 2004

This Billing Issues email is a scam ...

This spoof email takes the form of a text email with a link (see image below), but the link is disguised to look like a genuine eBay link. Using that link would have opened a forged eBay web page.

The true URL of the link is http://hostkeeper.com/~jigodia/
eBayISAPI.php?MfcISAPICommand=
SignInFPP&UsingSSL=1&email=%24email&userid=%24user%5c. This sends you to a page at hostkeeper.com (this site is frame forwarded to Websaic.com. Websaic is a web hosting reseller account with liquidcomm.net which use Time Warner Telecom to supply their hosting servers.

The forged web page had been removed when we received the first copy of this spoof email, but we expect that it contained a web form asking for credit or debit card and bank details at least.

If you have received this 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 email
scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...