Look out if any of you are Amazon users. Here is another scam going around. I just got an email this morning asking me to update my amazon account.

The cheek of this message was that it started off saying that since lots of fake amazon messages are going around, they decided to upgrade their servers and therefore you need to reenter your account info or you will have your account terminated....

update your amazon account

Man, do I hate this junk....

I can spot a phisherman a mile away. I love to "mess" with them, by sending them messages embedded within the text boxes of their phishing forms. Depending on my mood and how much time I want to waste on them, the messages are either, "you're busted -- reported to the FBI and Interpol, etc", or just a plain nasty message (not suitable for reprint on this family board). Sometimes, I even enter bogus information.

in the end, I always turn them in to the proper authorities, though.

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That sounds like good sport, I'll have to try that.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009

Paste an ad for your own company's product in the form if there's room, like in a comments space. Maybe the spammer's employees would like to buy something. Call it reverse spamming.

What mail programs really need is a "retaliate" button. When you click on it, it runs a background task that follow the links in the message to the seller's order form, fills it out with fake information, and submits it. Maybe it could do this repeatedly for a few days. That might be illegal, though, as a denial of service attack.

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Same here. I wonder if anyone at the scammer's ever tries logging in to a Paypal or eBay account with the username "you're busted" and the password "phishing scum".

About half the time it turns out that the scammer's site has already been taken down. It seems that major e-commerce sites like Amazon, Paypal or eBay don't waste any time in responding to reports of phishing emails.

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When phishing is all around you, you can spot it much better. It all takes a bit of common sense and a lot of repeat observations. I usually delete the phishy e-mails.

- Maha "sorry, won't bite" Vailo

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What gets me is that there are people foolish enough to fall for the *really* bad scams. I mean the ones with the rotten English and atrocious grammar. The *really* fake ones.

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I know what you mean. I "Gillianren" those with a few flicks of the trackball.

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you mean you contact the scammer and point out the spellling mistakes?

surely you "Antonisebonabadday" them.

I just don't open them at all, actually. Hotmail dumps all that kind of thing into a bulk mail folder--unless you're on my list. Which means, if you aren't and you're trying to contact me, you'd better put something that clearly indicates I know you in the topic line.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"