A Scam Email with the Subject
"Notice : Account On-hold Action Required."
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:53:20 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"eBay Security Center"<aw-confirm@ebay.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
assistanceboxessolog inverificationebaywinaccountclaimpaymentresponsecustomerprocesscustomverifymailsincerelynwill maintenancemailboxsecurity(i.e. change of address)dearhttps://www.ebay.com/for assistanceebay.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:
<aw-confirm@ebay.com>
envelope-to:
scams@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:53:20 -0700
from:
"eBay Security Center"<aw-confirm@ebay.com>
subject:
Notice : Account On-hold Action Required.
date:
Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:56:32 -0500
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
message-id:
<SCX4ID@1204769437.M859446P22295V>
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with eBay. This might be due to either following reasons:
- A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address)
- An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due an internal error within
our processors.
We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account.
If this is not completed by August 12, 2007, we reserve
the right to terminate all privileges of your account
indefinitly, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and regret any
inconvenience this may cause.
Sincerely,
eBay Account Review Department
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you
will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your eBay account
and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any page. If
your inquiry is regarding a claim, log in to your eBay account and go to the Resolution Center.
