EBay falls for false EBay email!!

From the you can never be to careful category… Ebay tricked by phony e-mail. A sophisticated phishing attack has proven to be so successful, it has tricked eBay Inc.’s own fraud investigations team into endorsing it as legitimate, according to an independent security consultant who reported the attack to eBay. In late November, Richi Jennings received a fraudulent e-mail message containing the subject line “Christmas is Coming on ebay.co.uk.” Offering him “great tips for successful Christmas selling,” the message directed him a Website that asked Jennings to enter his eBay user name and password, as well as the name and password for his e-mail account. Jennings reported the site to eBay on November 25, and four days later he got a note back from the company’s investigations team claiming that the e-mail message was, in fact, “an official e-mail message sent to you on behalf of eBay.” On Monday, December 5, eBay spokesperson Amanda Pires confirmed that the e-mail message was indeed part of a fraud, but she could not explain why it had
initially been identified as legitimate. Pires said that eBay had been working to take down the phishing site since November 8.
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