{"id":1357,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"eBay-'Please-Confirm-Your-Identity'-Phishing-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"eBay &#8216;Please Confirm Your Identity&#8217; Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Outline<\/h2>\n<p>Email, purporting to be from eBay, claims that you have tried to sign in from an unfamiliar computer and must, therefore, confirm your identity by clicking a link in the message. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brief Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>The email is not from eBay. The message is designed to trick eBay users into divulging their account login details to Internet criminals. The criminals have used a standard security protocol sometimes used by eBay as a means of making their false claims seem more legitimate.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><b>Subject: Please confirm your identity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>eBay &#8211; Please confirm your identity<\/p>\n<p>Dear eBay Community Member<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re signing in from a computer we&#8217;re not familiar with. That&#8217;s no problem, but we need to take a few moments just to make sure no one is trying to access your account without permission. Please log in to your account and complete the form on the next page.<br \/>\n[Link to bogus website removed]<\/p>\n<p>Regards<br \/>\neBay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Detailed Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>This email, which purports to be from eBay, claims that the recipient has attempted to log in to his or her eBay account from a computer that eBay is not familiar with. Supposedly, eBay needs to confirm the user&#8217;s identity to ensure that the account is not being accessed without the user&#8217;s permission.<\/p>\n<p>To confirm his or her identity, the user is instructed to log in to the eBay account by clicking a ink in the email. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> However, the message is not from eBay and the link in the email does not lead to an eBay identity confirmation page as expected.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the link opens a bogus webpage designed to closely resemble a genuine eBay login page. When the victim has entered his or her username and password on the fake page, a new page will appear that asks for the answer to the security question attached to the account as well as the user&#8217;s email address.<\/p>\n<p>After supplying this information, the victim will see a final message noting that he or she has successfully confirmed his or her identity. The victim will then be redirected to the genuine eBay website.<\/p>\n<p>The login credentials and other information submitted on the fake website can be collected by the criminals operating the scam and subsequently used to hijack the account. Once they have gained access to the compromised account, the criminals can lock out the real user by changing the account password, steal personal and financial information from the account and use it to conduct further fraudulent activities in the victim&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>The link in the email \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"Check Links in HTML Emails\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/check-html-links.shtml\">uses HTML<\/a> \u00a0to make it appear that it points to a genuine eBay web address. Moreover, to further the illusion of legitimacy, the scammers have copied the text of a standard security protocol message that is sometimes sent by eBay to help protect user accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Because it conducts its business online, eBay and sister company \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/you-sent-a-payment-paypal-scams-continue\/\">Paypal<\/a> \u00a0are \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"eBay 'Trusted Selling with Identity Confirmation' Phishing Scam\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/ebay-trusted-selling-confirmation-scam.shtml\">continually targeted<\/a> \u00a0by online scammers. New \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/question-from-ebay-member-phishing-scam\/\">phishing scam variations<\/a> \u00a0that \u00a0target eBay \u00a0users are regularly distributed. Be wary of any eBay message that asks you to click a link or open an attachment and supply personal or financial information.<\/p>\n<p>eBay has \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"Recognising Spoof (Fake) eBay Websites \" href=\"https:\/\/pages.ebay.com.au\/help\/account\/recognizing-spoof.html\">published information<\/a> \u00a0telling users how to avoid becoming a victim of such phishing scams.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/ebay-please-confirm-your-identity-phishing-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/ebay-please-confirm-your-identity-phishing-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline Email, purporting to be from eBay, claims that you have tried to sign in from an unfamiliar computer and must, therefore, confirm your identity by clicking a link in the message. \u00a0 Brief Analysis The email is not from eBay. The message is designed to trick eBay users into divulging their account login details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}