Spoof login page on ebay - very clever.
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Beware items which take you to the ebay signin page. There is a clever scam going on, the real url is masked by a borderless popup with the usual https://signin.ebay.co.uk url and successfully stolen accounts are then used to set up other id scamming auctions. Very clever, and easy to fall for.
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Ah ok, someone else got here before giving me the chance to do the job myself. The usual pistonheads good grace.
Anyway, for those interested, here's a screenshot of the bogus login page and the item number of the auction which produced it. Go off pistonheads to ebay and try it without endangering Petrol Ted's livelihood if you want to try it for yourself, notwithstanding the disclaimer below
www.tallbloke.net/spoof-login.gif
produced by ebay item 8007756264
NUMPTY WARNING
BEWARE!!! DO NOT SIGNIN WITH YOU REAL EBAY ACCOUNT DETAILS ON THE LINK PRODUCED BY ENTERING THIS ITEM NUMBER ON EBAY'S SITE!!!!
EDITED TO ADD:
IF YOU ARE PARANOID ABOUT VIRUSES, POPUPS, GOBLINS, BILL GATES ETC, WRAP YOUR COMPUTER IN COTTON WOOL NOW AND PUT IT IN A DARK QUIET ROOM. DON'T CLICK THE LINK OR WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
>> Edited by tallbloke on Thursday 20th October 20:41
>> Edited by Kinky on Thursday 20th October 20:58
>> Edited by tallbloke on Thursday 20th October 21:08
[URL REMOVED]
Ah ok, someone else got here before giving me the chance to do the job myself. The usual pistonheads good grace.
Anyway, for those interested, here's a screenshot of the bogus login page and the item number of the auction which produced it. Go off pistonheads to ebay and try it without endangering Petrol Ted's livelihood if you want to try it for yourself, notwithstanding the disclaimer below
www.tallbloke.net/spoof-login.gif
produced by ebay item 8007756264
NUMPTY WARNING
BEWARE!!! DO NOT SIGNIN WITH YOU REAL EBAY ACCOUNT DETAILS ON THE LINK PRODUCED BY ENTERING THIS ITEM NUMBER ON EBAY'S SITE!!!!
EDITED TO ADD:
IF YOU ARE PARANOID ABOUT VIRUSES, POPUPS, GOBLINS, BILL GATES ETC, WRAP YOUR COMPUTER IN COTTON WOOL NOW AND PUT IT IN A DARK QUIET ROOM. DON'T CLICK THE LINK OR WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
>> Edited by tallbloke on Thursday 20th October 20:41
>> Edited by Kinky on Thursday 20th October 20:58
>> Edited by tallbloke on Thursday 20th October 21:08
tallbloke said:
if any of you guys don't have AV or are unsure I'd suggest you don't open that link.
DISCLAIMER
If the link I posted causes your computer to explode, setting fire to your house and taking the entire district with it - Don't sue me. OK?
Might be an idea putting the discalimer on the first post, or even delete the link and regail us all with the story there-in?
up-the-dubs said:
Might be an idea putting the discalimer on the first post, or even delete the link and regail us all with the story there-in?
I think the NUMPTY WARNING is sufficient, there are no viruses or trojans embedded as far as I can see. Obviously if anyone wants to differ fair enough, but in the interests of informed debate, removing the link which enables people to check it out seems a bit self defeating.
victormeldrew said:
You could just extend you numpty warning to add a caution about AntiVirus. Just to be helpful. We wouldn't want anyone to think you were delibarately trying to spread malware now would we?
Good Grief!
I don't bellieeeeeve it.
There is no need for a virus warning because there are no viruses. ok?
I'd ask those who say their AV programs are throwing alerts to check carefully again to see if it's the security component rather than the AV component which is causing the flag-ups.
Hilts said:
Nice one, i've got to do a scan now FFS.
Burk!
No-one made you click you on the link and if you're now worried about your system then it's obviously pre-emtively not up to scratch.
I clicked the link to see the scam in order to make sure I dont get scammed myself. Having not been phished for ebay details before and since I've been using it a lot lately I thought it may be useful.
As for my system not being up to scratch, well shit, now I know eh? New copy of NIS fully up to date and functional obviously isn't enough.
I'd suggest editing the original link and add a statement BEFORE the link itself that it's potentially virused up to the hilt.
You can never be sure that everyone who clicks the link is up to date on virus updates/checkers, security settings, etc, etc, etc ....
K
>> Edited by Kinky on Thursday 20th October 20:41
You can never be sure that everyone who clicks the link is up to date on virus updates/checkers, security settings, etc, etc, etc ....
K
>> Edited by Kinky on Thursday 20th October 20:41
Kinky said:
I'd suggest editing the original link and add a statement BEFORE the link itself that it's virused up to the hilt.
You can never be sure that everyone who clicks the link is up to date on virus updates/checkers, etc, etc ....
K
Care to tell us which virus you found?
No?
Didn't think so.
Anyway, just to keep you happy, I've added an extra health warning, OK?
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