virus: Important eBay Scam Notification

From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 07:56:12 MDT


If you receive a message like this:Subject: Urgent message, from eBay Safe Harbor !
...
Dear eBay member!

Your information in our eBay file, was marked (flagged) as incorrect and/or
(fraudulent). To avoid any inconvenience concerning an interruption of your
service membership, in future. Please take just a moment and update your
eBay billing file. Remember to "doublecheck" all the fields for any possible
 mistakes.

To respond and update your information , please click on the web address
below. If that does not work, please cut and paste the entire web address
into the address field of your browser.
...

It is almost certainly a scam designed to obtain your eBay and Credit Card Data and should be ignored.

My recommendation would normally be to forward any messages received which look like this, (including their headers) directly to the supplier's contact address. In this case, if eBay has such an address, it is well hidden. In any case whenever completing information which should be secured, you should check for the use of "https://" and ensure that the addresses for web pages and email are what you would expect.

Regards

Hermit

This advisory is based on information distributed on the PolitechBot list and the source can be seen here: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03476.html

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