Beware new "Ebay" scam

A SOMEWHAT CONVINCING scam/spam purporting to be from Ebay has started doing the rounds.

The email, titled "Fraud Alert!" purports to be from Ebay and suggests it's opening an investigation into people using your account fraudulently.

But there's some clear give away signs. First, it appears to have been written by an extremely drunken INQUIRER hack, because i before e except after c means receive is misspelt.

The grammar is also a bit dicky-wicky.

And finally, the URL in the spamster doesn't go to Ebay at all, but to this address.

http://piast.t19.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/.mc/ebba/ebay.html.

So if you get one, don't click on the URL.

The emal looks a lot like this: