of everyone can just look at the Web Address and notice its not Ebay, or your Bank's web address...simple as that. But yea this is a problem, ive received emails like that from people looking for my Ebay stuff but thats about it, never anything else.

 

 

 

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Phishing is HUGE. I work for a bank and it seems each day more of my time is spent dealing with it. Everyone seems to agree, education is the key. Banks do not, will not send emails to clients asking them for sensitive personal or financial infomation.

It staggers me how many people will willingly submit their credit card info simply because they get an email directing them to a website that asks for it. Once your numbers have been sent, phishers can have a fake card coded and at an ATM within half-an-hour.

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Yikes! Don't ever click on these e-mails to confirm.... once you've done that, they know that your e-mail address is good. They keep trying that e-mail address (and possibly spread your address around to a few phishing friends. But, niloc is correct in what he says about them never sending you e-mails about stuff like that. You can see "How to detect spoof e-mail" at e-bay: http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutor...=STRK:MEMM:LNLK

I think that my "feedback" e-mail address has been either scraped by bots - or simply added to a phishing list manually because my site had "Contact: mailto:x@y.com " -- easy to search for, and protect against if I had done what it takes (I think that it has something to do with editing the robots.txt file - confirm anybody?). In any case, 96% of the e-mails arriving at my feedback e-mail have all kinds of important sounding warnings about various accounts that I may or may not even have. All phishing attempts. All deleted immediately.

 

 

 

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