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eBay - "NOTICE eBay Obligatory Verifying - Invalid User Information"
09-Mar-2004

Summary
Email title: "NOTICE eBay Obligatory Verifying - Invalid User Information"
Scam target: eBay customers
Email format: HTML e-mail
Sender:

S-Harbor@eBay.com

Sender spoofed? Yes
Scam call to action: "... We regret to inform you that your home phone number had an error on Ebay Inc. databases...
... To provide us with your phone number, just click the link below..."
Scam goal: Getting victim's credit card, phone/address, SSN and eBay account information
Call to action format: URL link to a HTML form
Visible link: https://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?
Called link :

http://cgi1.ebay.com.aw-cgiebayISAPI.dll%00@210.93.131.250/my/index.htm

Website: http://210.93.131.250/my/index.htm - still active as of 10-Mar-04
 
E-mail
  • The messsage looks suspicious:
    • It uses impersonalized greeting (The "Dear User" type)
    • There are no eBay logos, branding or other identification features.
    • The message is not from an identifiable person in eBay

 
Web Site
Visible link: https://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?
Called link :

http://cgi1.ebay.com.aw-cgiebayISAPI.dll%00@210.93.131.250/my/index.htm

Resolved URL:

210.93.131.250/my/index.htm

Reverse DNS :

IP Address 210.93.131.250 resolves to: (unable to resolve 210.93.131.250)

WHOIS info:

IP Address : 210.93.128.0-210.93.191.255
Network Name : LOTTE
Connect ISP Name : ISP-1
Name : Hyungju Bae
Org Name : Lotte Data Communication Company
State : SEOUL
Address : 98-6 Kalwol-Dong Yongsan-Ku

Web form: FORM action=http://210.93.131.250/cgi-bin/thanks.cgi method=post
  • When the user clicks on the link, an HTML form opens up.
  • The form asks for the kind of information that should make recipients suspicious, e.g.:
    • User ID and password
    • Date of birth
    • SSN
    • Credit card number
    • ATM bank PIN
    • Phone number
  • The URL of the web site showing in the browser is a numeric IP address, not ebay.co
  • The web form sends captured data to a cgi script on the same server
 
 
 
 

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