New eBay fraud email

[thewayne]

The one asking you to confirm the sale of Item X has branched out, they're now using a variety of products. I'm getting a lot for US Robotics modems, I can't conceive of anyone having a good use for them. ANYWAY, I found this in my junk mail folder tonight:

Dear eBay user,

This email was sent to you because your email address was changed if you did not authorize this please click on the yellow button to revert to your current address.

You can also click on the following link into to revert your address:
http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ChangeEmailConfirm
Your confirmation code is: 22033

If you need additional help, contact eBay's Customer Support:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_inline/index.html

Thank you,
eBay

Naturally the URLs do not point to an eBay site. The insidious thing about this is that most users are likely to use the same password for both eBay and PayPal, so if they got your login, it would be easy for them to drain your bank account through PayPal.

They need to line some of these fraudsters up against the wall and give everyone whom they have defrauded a BB machine gun.

Comments

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

No, the victims should get to use a paint gun. That way they can easily tell just where they hit, and they can try to create interesting designs.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

With rusty BB's.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

You can't use rusty BBs, they'll jam up the gun. You need pristine ones, the tolerances are too thin. (a friend of mine had one, they're WAAAY cool!)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

If you let the shooters change paint out for different colors, you could certainly have something along the lines of performance art...

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Dare to dream, I guess.