Nothing like a lawsuit to get your blood boiling. The ominous message from your fellow eBay member threatens:

I`ve pressed charges against you and your eBay screen name, FBI will be searching for you. Hope you`ll do good time in jail ….

Have a nice day.

Before you punch that Respond button to give this turkey a Piece Of Your Mind, take a deep breath, then note:

  • It looks like a normal HTML-loaded eBay message…
  • And it’s brimming with legitimate eBay links…
  • But the response link conceals a scumbag.

Click that button and you’ll be transported to an honest-to-gosh eBay sign-on page buried under becksnet.com. In Norway.

Norwegian-Spawned Phishing Technique

[Norwegian-Spawned Phishing Technique, netted in trimMail honeypot]

On the other hand, if you simply type in “www.becksnet.com”, you land on a home page boasting today’s typical post-modern Under Construction decor, complete with no functional links.

Now we all know that eBay’s a profit-harvesting miracle, but do you really think its penny-pinching has stooped to buying time on Norwegian phishing sites?

We can only hope Espen Otterstad (espen@becksnet.com) doesn’t catch too many phish lunging for his worm.

Nevertheless, you gotta give him kudos for cleverness. Anger motivates. Must be a psych student.