A Scam Email with the Subject
"Dear eBay Customer,"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:18:40 -0800 and has been classified as a
Auction/Escrow Scam.
The sender was
"eBay Team"<ebay-center@e-bay.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
ebaywinaccountrecordscustomerservicecustomonlineuser will dearhttp://www.ebay.com/cgi-b...ebay.com
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
return-path:
<ebay-center@e-bay.com>
envelope-to:
419@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:18:40 -0800
from:
"eBay Team"<ebay-center@e-bay.com>
subject:
Dear eBay Customer,
date:
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:18:35 +0800
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
message-id:
REIDs3x1204769438.M895312P22295V-S3X
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
It has come to our attention that your eBay
account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to
protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you
could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your
personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online
service.
However, failure to update your records will result
in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before
January 21-24, 2008.
Once you have updated your account records, your
eBay session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
