Jim,
I agree . . . it has all the trappings of a hoax to harvest accounts and
their log-in passwords.
The site address (ww16.brinkster.com) translates to an IP address of
66.70.10.41 which is part of a block (66.70.10.0 - 66.70.10.255) assigned
to Brinkster, Inc. Brinkster's upstream provider is HiSpeed Hosting (has a
much larger IP block, 66.70.0.0 - 66.70.127.255, that includes Brinkster's)
and is also known as (or is part of) "datapipe.com" or "datapip.net" which
sounds a lot like a DSL or similar provider.
The more I dug, the more suspicious I got. You have a good radar
system. The first tell-tale is what looks to be a URL for one site when
it's "href" in the HTML is actually a completely different URL.
BTW, "www.ebay.com" has an IP address of 216.33.156.119 in a completely
different block, assigned to "exodus.net" which is part of Cable & Wireless
(cw.net).
-- John
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