Received this gem of an email on this dreary, rainy morning. Normally my email client (Thunderbird) does a great job relegating junk like this to its proper place in the trash can, but this one slipped through:
The “click here” link is a URL the length of my arm and obviously not associated in any way, shape or form with eBay. I suspect clicking on it would lead you to a site that looks remarkably like an eBay page where I could “log on” and “change” my email address. At that point, Mr. Phisherman would have collected my real user name and password and be poised to wreck havoc with my eBay account.
I really wish these kinds of scams would cease and desist; but I suspect we’ll have to live with them forever. I assume people continue to fall for these things. If they didn’t, the dolts who propagate this crap would move on and find some other way to rip people off.
The ironic thing is the people that set up these phishing sites are pretty talented programmers. If they applied themselves to legitimate work, they’d be contributing members of society and make a decent living.
But then again, someone whose prevailing attitude revolves around taking advantage of others probably has no hope of ever functioning in society.
Words to the wise: be careful, assume everything is a scam, and hit the delete key frequently.
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Norm Fisher 01.21.07 at 2:22 pm
Good one Jay. Spammers are pretty stupid indeed and it’s sad that these fools can manage to find victims. The fact that the “Nigerian scam” still suckers willing dupes after all of these years suggests that there are people out there who could really use some help.
Alpharetta Georgia Real Estate 07.20.07 at 9:54 am
I know exactly what you mean. i get the same E-mails, and also E-mails from the spammers and scammers from Africa about having 35 million dollars and they need me to help them transfer it to the United States. I also win the internet lottery every day, and all of my bank accounts at all 150 banks I bank at are frozen or need validation. It gets worse every day.
Alpharetta Homes 01.23.08 at 3:06 pm
The other day I received an email from a phisher actually *warning* me about phishing emails. These guys are getting more and more arrogant every day.
Adam 07.15.08 at 1:10 am
I have like millions of them on my yahoo email account :[
Dunno why ?!