WARNING--- EBAY SPOOF

Dean · 09-08-2004, 01:39 AM

Part of the problem is Internet Explorer/Outlook. It allows the email to show what appears to be a legit url, when in fact, it is not.

I use Linux and I can see the spoofed url (you can do the same by using "view message source" in Outlook.

I then do a whois (www.samspade.org) of the address and contact the admin of the hosting domain. More often then not the site that is hosting the ebay/paypal "validation page" has been hacked into and the admin is unaware.

09-08-2004, 01:39 AM	#3
Dean User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: PA Posts: 132 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Part of the problem is Internet Explorer/Outlook. It allows the email to show what appears to be a legit url, when in fact, it is not. I use Linux and I can see the spoofed url (you can do the same by using "view message source" in Outlook. I then do a whois (www.samspade.org) of the address and contact the admin of the hosting domain. More often then not the site that is hosting the ebay/paypal "validation page" has been hacked into and the admin is unaware. __________________ Carpe Diem, Parabellum