My aunt was sent this email earlier today:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields)
Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation.
Regards,
Morris Franklin
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team hxxp://zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/URL
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Subject: TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
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As soon as i see the link i know that this is a scam. When you go to the ip address (removed) that is in the link; it shows about 50 pictures. My question is how do i get the source of this message? I would love to email this scammer....
Thanks,
Adam
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You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your eBay account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your eBay account by following the link below.
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields)
Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation.
Regards,
Morris Franklin
eBay SafeHarbor
Investigations Team hxxp://zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/URL
Here is the properties of the email message: (removed by moderator is my aunts email)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from psmtp.com ([12.158.36.80]) by removed with SMTP
id <removed>
for <removed>; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:05:16 -0400
Received: from source ([65.210.34.6]) by exprod6mx96.postini.com ([12.158.35.251]) with SMTP;
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:05:10 PDT
Received: from proxy2 (proxy2 [127.0.0.1])
by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i8A7om720081
for <removed>; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:50:48 -0400
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:50:48 -0400
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation
To: [email]removed[/email]
From: [email][email protected][/email]
Mime-Version: 1.0
As soon as i see the link i know that this is a scam. When you go to the ip address (removed) that is in the link; it shows about 50 pictures. My question is how do i get the source of this message? I would love to email this scammer....
Thanks,
Adam
[email]removed[/email]