Phishing spam

[womzilla]

... is evolving quickly. It seems like only a month ago I got my first phish e-mail claiming to be about an eBay item I hadn't paid on. Today, I got one which set off a shocked "this must be wrong! I have to investigate!" alert that was almost tangible--a fake invoice for a $1,999.97 computer system through Amazon. (Now that Amazon sells pretty much everything, Amazon accounts are a great target for phishing.)

I hope the author gets everything he deserves, and hard.

Comments

[montoya.livejournal.com]

Some months ago, I decided that even if I ever wanted a Paypal or eBay account, it just wouldn't be worth it, since I'd have to spend so much time carefully reading through the phishing stuff instead of just dismissing it outright.

[cheshyre]

I got that one too today.
One of the reasons why I still access my mail primarily thru Pine & unix shell, where I can easily see the code.

At this point, I don't dare ever reactivate my old Paypal & ebay accounts. Because now I know that every email claiming to be from paypal or ebay are fake.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I have a paypal account. I just ignore all email which claims to be from paypal unless it's about a transaction I know I've made.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I Forward every message I get from "PayPal" or "eBay" to spoof@ and spam@ respectively. Then, if one is legit (hey, it happens), they'll tell me and I'll manually type the main url and logon info.

[firecat]

PayPal uses my real name (which phishers don't know) when emailing me for real. (They did so today.) Most phishing scams don't work on me because the phishers send email to all my addresses instead of just the ones I actually use for Amazon/Ebay. Reading my email on a Unix shell also helps.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

I got that one too. Is it possible they were pharming LJ?

As for Phish -- I like them best for the covers they would do live (especially on Hallowe'en when they'd do entire albums: The Beatles, Fear of Music, and especially Quadrophenia), but if you want a Phish original for your tag, may I recommend "Jesus Left Chicago."