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... 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.

Current Mood: caught-and-released
Current Music: I actually can't think of any songs by Phish

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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.