03-17-2007, 07:58 AM
Quote:When an eBay seller opened an email received through eBay's message system this week, it read, "If you need additional income, we have an open position as a mediator for selling items on ebay. To learn more, open www .tradeportal1.org and enter (Code removed by editor) on prompt." The purported shopper who sent the email to the seller using eBay's "Ask Seller a Question" feature had zero feedback and had registered on eBay the same day the email message was sent.
The recipient, a concerned eBay seller, reported the suspicious email to eBay when she received the email on March 14. A search for tradeportal1.org on a search engine came up with a post on an anti-scam forum from someone who said they had reported a similar email - also linking to the site TradePortal1.org - to eBay on March 9. A WhoIs search on the domain "tradeportal1.org" reveals it was registered on February 13, 2007, using a domain registration company that lets resellers register a .ORG domain for just 99 cents...
full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m03/i16/s01