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TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
24th August 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

Report Summary
Date Reported
24th August 2004
Apparent Sender
eBay
Return Address
aw-confirm@eBay.com
Subject
TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
Format
HTML
Method

Submitted form data on spoof email is forwarded to a remote script.

Bogus Web Content?
No
URL of web content

N/A

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. The spoof email pretends to be from eBay and requests verification of account details in the form included. Details are captured and sent to a remote script.

2. eBay never send out emails requesting details like this.

 

" You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised."...

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.

 

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