It's a definite scam. I have gotten these things
before but Ebay says this in every message it sends...
eBay will not request personal data (password, credit
card/bank numbers, and so on) in an email
...Telling someone to log in through a link is
definitely a scam ebay has never sent me an email that
logs directly into the 'my Ebay' page.
Mark Lloyd
--- "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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