Re: (phishing use case?) eBay Registration Suspension

The idea of adding a label to "legitimate" bulk e-mail has often been talked 
about, notably at the Direct Marketing Association. I _believe_ they're 
instinctively against it, however, are seeing it as inevitable. But, that's 
very much hearsay and we'd need to ask them and others for their opinion. 
That would be within scope of the work ECP.NL is about to lead on the policy 
research side for WP2 (kick off next week in Barcelona). The same hearsay by 
the way tells me that Trust UK is now based at the DMA - we need to make 
some contact there when we have more to say.

Since we're building a platform that can carry any metadata about a group of 
resources and include within that methods by which machines can take steps 
to add trust to the metadata/label, then I'd say it's very much in scope. 
The EU funding, however, is explicitly not for filtering projects.

Phil.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>
To: <public-quatro@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: fwd: (phishing use case?) eBay Registration Suspension


>
> Do we consider this to be in scope?
>
> The HTML mail I just received appears to come from EBay,
> and has lots of eBay URLs in. But it also has stuff like
>
> http://64.23.11.155/yama/ebay/index2.htm
>
> ...which rather suspiciously solicits my credit card info.
>
> I'd hope that RDF/XML labels and ratings could offer some
> help to consumers here.
>
> Currently, I assume all emails apparently from eBay are
> junk/lies. This trend, I think, is seriously holding back
> the growth of the Web, and consumer confidence in ecommerce.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "aw-confirm@ebay.com" 
> <aw-confirm@ebay.com> -----
>
> From: "aw-confirm@ebay.com" <aw-confirm@ebay.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:57:16 -0800
> To: danbri@w3.org
> Subject: eBay Registration Suspension
> Message-Id: <E1CmY8a-0000ek-Bb@host50.ipowerweb.com>
> Reply-To: aw-confirm@ebay.com
>
>   [1][IMG] [2][IMG]  Your credit/debit card information must be updated
>
>
>
>   Dear eBay Member,
>   We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your eBay account
>   from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your 
> account
>   was used by a third party without your authorization. If you recently
>   accessed your account while traveling, the unusual login attempts may 
> have
>   been initiated by you
>   The login attempt was made from:
>   IP address: 172.25.210.66
>   ISP Host: cache-66.proxy.aol.com
>
>   By now, we used many techniques to verify the accuracy of the 
> information
>   our users provide us when they register on the Site. However, because 
> user
>   verification on the Internet is difficult, eBay cannot and does not
>   confirm each user's purported identity. Thus, we have established an
>   offline verification system o help you evaluate with who you are dealing
>   with.
>
>   click on the link below, fill the form and then submit as we will verify
>
>
>   [3]http://www.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyRegistrationShow
>   Please save this fraud alert ID for your
>   reference
>
>   Please Note - If you choose to ignore our
>   request, you leave us no choice but to
>   temporally suspend your account.
>
>   * Please do not respond to this e-mail as your
>   reply will not be received.
>   Respectfully,
>   Trust and Safety Department
>   eBay Inc.
>
>   Helpful links
>
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>
>   Trading guidelines
>
>   eBay will not request personal data (password, credit card/bank numbers,
>   and so on) in an email. Learn how to [13]protect your account.
>
>   Thank you for using eBay!
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> References
>
>   Visible links
>   2. http://www.ebay.com/
>   3. http://64.23.11.155/yama/ebay/index2.htm
>   4. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/basicsearch.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:10
>   5. 
> http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayLogin&ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:11
>   6. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/community/chat/index.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:12
>   7. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/index_popup.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:13
>   8. http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/index.html
>  11. 
> http://ebay.doubleclick.net/jump/ebay.us.dailystatus/dailystatus;cat=;tile=2;oid=56048557;sz=234x60;ord=1098128729?
>  12. 
> http://ebay.doubleclick.net/jump/ebay.us.dailystatus/dailystatus;cat=;tile=3;oid=56048557;sz=234x60;ord=1098128729?
>  13. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/account_protection.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:14
>  14. http://www.ebay.com/
>  15. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-priv.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:18
>  16. 
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-user.html?ssPageName=ADME:B:DS:US:17
>
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>
>

Received on Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:20:11 UTC