[Premium-Rx] Be Careful: The eBay HF1000 Phishing Scam

[Kurt Keller]

It is a scam to get you password and then high jack your EBAY account. Only
communicate with EBAY by directly logging on!



At 11:26 PM 7/6/2007, stephous wrote:
>We have all seen the fraudulent auctions like the eBay HF1000 auction. The
>fraudsters are getting good at stealing our money and our ID's. It's easy to
>fall prey. How do they do it?
>
>
>1) Stealing your ID: I just got an eBay email which looks like a genuine
>eBay message. I don't know the user so I decide to log on. Do I use the eBay
>page sent to me? It looks like eBay. I decide to log on to eBay securely.
>H'mmm, no messages! What's up? Look at the differences between the two
>sites:
>
>a. ftp://0x26.0xc0.0x1f.0xcd/eBayISAPI.dll
>This is not eBay. It's a nearly perfect duplicate of the eBay sign on page.
>
>b.
>https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1&pUserId=&co_partnerId=2&siteid=0&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FMyeBay%26_trksid%3Dm37%26MyEbay%3D%26guest%3D1&pageType=1883
>This is eBay
>
>If you responded using site a. you just gave the fraudster your ID. The
>similarities between the two sites are nearly undetectable.
>
>
>2) The HF1000 scam keeps on running. They ask you to pay for the item
>outside of eBay. You get a huge discount. Goodbye $$$. The scamsters ask for
>money orders, bank accounts, credit cards, and your ID's. There is no limit
>to what they will do. In the end you lose.
>
>
>It's a good idea to trade with people you know.
>
>
>Be Careful,
>Steve Pappin
>
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