Phishers need to proofread too...

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Just got this awesome email that I had to share. Links have been removed, as it's a phishing scheme.

[snip]
You have added phoneseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your eBay account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact eBay customer service at:

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay [[phishing link location removed]]

Thank you for using eBay!
The PayPal Team
[/snip]

I never knew PayPal was responsible for eBay as well! I'll be sure to click through the links and provide my login credentials. Maybe I'll post them here at some point as well, just to verify that I'm the one running my own website. :-)

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PapPal?

Bloggers need to proofread too...

That's what blog readers are for. Fixed. :-)

Yes paypal own ebay.

Actually, eBay owns PayPal ( http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1476411 )... which makes this slightly more humorous.

What's really sad is that people fall for this s*&%

I've had two emails from two different banks asking me to enter my details in the past 2 days.

Problem is I don't have an account with either bank.

Actually people wouldn't fall for scams like that if only they would behave more like Dewey the turtle:

Whenever you receive an email like that, ask yourself, what would Dewey do?

(your spam filter identified that site as 'questionable content'... lmao)

Darn, spam fileter at it again. I think it's the 's' word it doesn't like. Let me try that again:

f*t*c dor o*r*g slash i*n*f*o*s*e*c*u*r*i*t*y

I get a lot of these. The funniest one is where I get one from eBay that says that a new bank account was added to my eBay account and they think it looks suspicious. I would think it suspicious too, since eBay doesn't have anything to do with bank accounts -- that's PayPal.

I read them sometimes just for fun.

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