Example of Phishing emails

They are getting better and better at this

Here is email I found in my bulk folder recently. I was curious to look into it. I knew it is wrong email.

eBay Phishing email

From:

Subject :

Body

Notes

Overall, email looks quite authentic ! ( But it is not )
They used all images from actual eBay website
Privacy statement and user agreement links also pointing to actual ebay website. Well, no harm there.
Smartly, actual link to Phishing website was an image, which is pointing “ebaystatic.com”. I don’t think that it is valid ebay domain. I am not sure though.

Where is the catch?

You only find catch when you see where that image button is actually going ( See it from “view source” )

< a target=“_blank”  rel=“nofollow”

_ href=“http://rds.yahoo.com/

_ylt=A0ylu=X3oDXzc1/SIG=148vsd1jp/EXP=1138544186

/**http://68.179.141.65/login.php” >

< img border=“0″

src=“http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics//email/btnRespond.gif”

width=“193″ height=“22″>

Good try ! but we know better Please, remember:

Good and geniune website will never ask and solicit user to enter login & password information. Most of us know that, but still good reminder does not hurt

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