sneaky phishers
bastards
I think at this point, the ruse of sending you a
message from a bank or paypal saying that your account is suspended and you have
to log in at some link is pretty much dead. Even the most naive of internet
users should be wary of this kind of thing now. Now they've moved on to telling
you that your ebay or amazon account is suspended, which is slightly more
sneaky, but still kind of obvious. I just got a great (or scary depending on how
you look at it) phishing e-mail though. It was a perfect reproduction of a
"question from an ebay member" e-mail asking about a motorcycle cover that was
for sale and asking why I was selling it when it came for free with the
motorcycle. This was the closest I came to actually clicking on one of these
e-mails yet. Of course, I knew I hadn't put up a motorcycle cover for sale, but
I immediately worried that my ebay account had been hacked or something.
Luckily, I noticed that I got like 5 other of these exact e-mails so I figured
it out immediately.
This kind of stuff
has gotta be bad for Amazon and EBay, if I were them, I'd have some HUGE teams
tracking these people down and either having them arrested or just doing DOSes
to their servers.
Posted: Tue - November 22, 2005 at 08:41 AM
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