TCS - Your eBay Account Must Be Confirmed

Your eBay Account Must Be Confirmed

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the June 2004 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

I got this message, supposedly from "Support" (support@ebay.com) with a subject of Your eBay Account Must Be Confirmed. It must have worked for some that received the single message, because on May 9 I received 20 more copies.

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Dear eBay member ,

During our regular and verification of the accounts we couldn't verify your current information, either your information Has changed or it is incomplete . if the account is not updated to current information within 5 days then , your access to Buy or Sell on eBay will be restricted

Go to the link below to Update your account information :

http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&ssPageName=h:h:sin: US

please dont reply to this email as you will not receive a response

Thank You for using eBay!

http://www.eBay.com


As outlined in our user agreement , eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements, vist our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions .

Copyright =A9 1995-2004 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.


Spam inspector said:

X-SpamInspector: Checked on 5/4/2004 6:56:33 AM
X-SpamInspector: Detection 60
X-SpamInspector: Reason contains spam content
but for some reason it did not automatically move it to my Deleted Items folder.

The http://signin.ebay.com/ link actually takes you to http://61.100.12.150/verification/index.php.

As is obvious from this result from VisualRoute

IP Address 61.100.12.150 is in Seuol, South Korea

The webpage at http://61.100.12.150/verification/index.php is:

The main webpage on the server, i.e. the webpage at http://61.100.12.150 is:

I have said this in other articles, but it is worth repeating:
If you get an email that either asks you to directly enter your account number, password, or other private data, or if it takes you to a specific web page which asks for that information, don't provide it.



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Tulsa Computer Society 6/01/2004
Don Singleton, President