I have received a fair few phishing mails recently (all of them caught by my mail server and deleted/marked as such) and I have been reading through a couple to see if they would make me suspicious.

Here are some notable things that make them stand out as fake emails:

1/ The email is actually a GIF not text...
2/ When you hover over the GIF, the status bar tells you where the link goes, which isn't eBay...
3/ The grammar is atrocious:

As Romania is one of the most high rated fraudulent countries, we temporarily blocked your account to avoid future problems or misusage of your eBay account.

If you are travelling and made these login attempts yourself or borrowed your eBay account to someone else, please log in below.

Therefore, I will rate this phishing attempt:

*     Why are you bothering, you juvenile fucktard!
**    Needs a lot of work. Please try harder
***   Needs work
****  Almost got me.
***** Woah! You're a clever bastard...

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