http://www.venturecapital.at is hosting a page that is pretending to be an E-bay page to verify your account information. The information they ask for is enough to complete identity theft as well as steal your E-bay account. I would like to report it to the hosting firm but the page is not in english so I need someone to tell me what language it is so I can find an online translator to translate my report into their native language. The fake page is at the domain name above with /.ebay/ added to it (Not positing a direct link for obvious reasons)
Looks like German. I believe the .at means it’s an Austrian domain.
Definitely German.
Curious - the publisher of the http://www.venturecapital.at/ (as per link on home page) and the domain owner (see whois entry) is a law firm in Vienna, Austria. It looks very unlikely that they knowingly published the kind of page that you describe - lawyers usually know better than defrauding you in a way that can be proved ).
Best write to them in English (they are sure to understand English, especially as their profile says that they specialize in national, European and international commercial law.)
If you translate your message using an automated translator they might sue you, claiming they did themselves an injury laughing. Automatic translations are IMO only ever useful translating from a foreign language into one that you understand, because that way you can see which parts of the translation are obvious nonsense.
BTW a good language guesser is at http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/tools/guesser.en.html.
The language is German, and the country is Austria.
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That really cracked me up.
How did you come across this page? Was it a link in some spam pretending to be from eBay?
You could just report it to eBay and let them deal with it.
Thank you everyone. I have sent an E-mail to the addresses from the Whois entry. I wrote it in english because I do not know German.
Yeah, they should definitely know better. The page you links says (roughly) “Welcome to an Internet Portal for Financing (or factoring) of/from New Media, Internet Applications and Law Computing.”
Rowrrbazzle Yes it was spam pretending to be from E-bay. I did report it to E-bay but knowing that many places are closed today because it’s the day after Thanksgiving I am concerned that E-bay may not act quickly on it and someone may fall prey to it. If I can report it myself to the hosts and have the page closed thus protecting someone I will feel better.
A wise move, if ever there was one.