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The term pagejacking is commonly used to describe the dilberate diversion of a visitor from an intended website or webpage to the scammer's website.
Scammer's often use ebay and other online auction sites for their pagejacking schemes.
Basically the victim is informed via email that there is some sort of problem with their ebay account, or their ebay transaction, and they are asked to go to a page where the problem can be fixed. (Though this email appears to be from ebay it is actually from a scammer)
The page often looks very much like an official site and it asks the victim to provide various personal information about him/herself in order to "fix the problem" (online passwords, credit card numbers, Social Security/Insurance Number, etc.).
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