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Old Jan 16, 2004 | 06:34 PM
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This thread is stuck.....
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Old Jan 16, 2004 | 06:44 PM
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geeze, another scam atrist on ebay. Thats no surprise.
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Old Jan 16, 2004 | 11:34 PM
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Originally posted by koala
Yup, scam.
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 04:45 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dky1e
It's a bug in internet explorer (it hides the actual address in the address bar [more here:http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/NT-...03-12/0027.html]

After entering the username and pass it brings you to (what you think is)
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 07:38 AM
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ebay Removed the Item already... I guess someone caught it...

Regards...

BA...
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 11:19 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dky1e
It's a bug in internet explorer (it hides the actual address in the address bar [more here:http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/NT-...03-12/0027.html]

After entering the username and pass it brings you to (what you think is)
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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 09:01 PM
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http://session.ebaymotors.com@ebayupdates.biz/session.php>
Official URL format is: http://user@host/page

So in this URL, session.ebaymotors.com is the user, ebayupdates.biz is the host (web server). You are logging into the server 'ebayupdates.biz' with a username of 'session.ebaymotors.com'. The site 'ebayupdates.biz' is presumably owned by the scammer. I didn't see the original ebay page - but I'm guessing that anyone who submitted any data would have submitted it to the scammer at 'ebayupdates.biz'.

It is a common scam - because most people look only at the beginning of the URL, not the whole thing, they see the user@ part of the URL and think that it is the host (web site), when really it is bogus. The real web site is to the right of the @ sign.

What is interesting to me is that the scam site 'ebayupdates.biz' appears to be hosted at yahoo.
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