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ACK!!! What virus is this?!? Ebay wants an ATM PIN?!?
Ebay Motors ^ | Saturday, March 6, 2010

Posted on 03/06/2010 1:02:42 PM PST by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

I am trying to log into my ebay account, and I am being asked for all sorts of personal information, to include an ATM PIN.
 
I am going to the correct URL [the browser shows it as living at "ebay.com"], so this isn't "phishing".
 
Ergo one of the following must be true:

1) Either Ebay has been hacked, or
 
2) I have a very sophisticated virus on my machine which is capable of altering my TCP/IP stack and redirecting my DNS lookups.


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Yikes!
 
Has anyone seen this before?
1 posted on 03/06/2010 1:02:42 PM PST by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
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To: ShadowAce
Bump - have you guys seen this yet?
 
Thanks!
2 posted on 03/06/2010 1:03:23 PM PST by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo (SCORE!!! And in Paris, no less. MOO HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

No way would I enter that information!


3 posted on 03/06/2010 1:03:49 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Ain’t no way in hell.


4 posted on 03/06/2010 1:04:31 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Click the help link at top right of page and you can get to a contact page. I’d call ebay if I were you.


5 posted on 03/06/2010 1:04:34 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

What is the action of the form?

Note the spelling of authoriSed ....


6 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:02 PM PST by Disturbin (Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

eBay would use your real name in correspondence, no?


7 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:11 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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To: tutstar

I wouldn’t click a thing on that page. Ebay does NOT ask for this kind of information.


8 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:21 PM PST by tsmith130
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You have been hacked!!! Do not respond to any of that.


9 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:33 PM PST by EagleUSA
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No way is it real.


10 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:37 PM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

I’m no computer expert, but I think it’s completely fraudulent. I buy and sell on ebay all the time, and they haven’t axed me for any such info.

Also, I notice there is an “s” after http in the url. That isn’t normal is it?


11 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:49 PM PST by webschooner (Lincoln Freed the Slaves ... Obama Enslaves the Free)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

all the hallmarks of Sheik al’Fraud..


12 posted on 03/06/2010 1:05:52 PM PST by rahbert (Round up the color experts!)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Just signed in....that screen did not come up...

You been phished bro...


13 posted on 03/06/2010 1:06:02 PM PST by Crim
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Your computer has been hijacked by one of the more sophisticated virii out there.

Basically it hijacks any DNS request for specific sites (eBay, Amazon, etc) and transparently redirects it to a site of their own choosing. This is done (among other methods) by rewriting your hosts file so that the computer will never be able to see the difference in a manner that you can visible tell (i.e., the URL field isn’t even different).


14 posted on 03/06/2010 1:06:08 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

It very will could be phishing. Check out the links on the page—ALL OF THEM! to confirm that they actually go to valid links.


15 posted on 03/06/2010 1:06:13 PM PST by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Don’t fool with Ebay...just answer the request from the guy in Mumbasa who wants to transfer ten million (US) to your account...send him the routing and account numbers, keep the ten Million (US) and retire....


16 posted on 03/06/2010 1:06:40 PM PST by jessduntno (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
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Do not respond to the requests. Call eBay customer service immediately.


17 posted on 03/06/2010 1:06:44 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

By the way, one tipoff is that you’re not going to the UK or Hong Kong eBay variants, yet they spelled “authorized” in the British fashion with an S instead of a Z.


18 posted on 03/06/2010 1:07:11 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Looks bad and fake as hell — I would call eBay


19 posted on 03/06/2010 1:07:26 PM PST by freedumb2003 ( Tagline lost -- anyone seen it?)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Its a scam:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Another-eBay-scam-fishes-for-bank-details/0,130061744,120279354,00.htm


20 posted on 03/06/2010 1:07:33 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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