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One thing we could do is open up our browser and and type in the friendly Internet address of:  http://211.115.141.66/ and see what pops up, but that could be dangerous!  The website could be infected with a virus which could execute malicious code on my machine when I connect to it.  I think we better do a reverse IP lookup and see who owns this IP address.  So I head on over to: http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html and enter the IP address and it tells me:
Hmmmm... this IP address is from out of the country!  Asia... we'll need to go do a lookup on the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre and see who has our specific IP address.  So, off we go to: http://www.apnic.net/search/.  I enter the IP address in their WhoIs search and it tells me:

We find ourselves in Korea, at a middle school for girls no less.  Well, its time to check out their website.  I check my virus scanner and make sure the definition files are up to date, make sure the Ethernet cable is close at hand so I can quickly disconnect my Internet connection in the event my machine becomes compromised.  I open up my Internet Explorer and enter the address:  http://211.115.141.66/.  I decline to have the Korean character set downloaded to my machine and up pops their web page.

Well, that was uneventful.  No virus warnings, no excessive hard drive activity, no unauthorized outbound Internet traffic.  So, lets look into the subdirectories of the suspicious eBay contest links.  I add "ebay/" to the end of the address and hit enter.

Now we are looking at the /ebay/ directory of the suspect site... hey! look!  it's our "big long line of babble" directory (its cutoff by the next column on the screenshot). 
So, now we'll investigate the BLLOB (that's our big long line of babble) directory...