Sara learned a lesson last night when she clicked on the link to this email. Thinking it was eBay asking to update her info she clicked the link. She then proceeded to enter her username and password not noticing that Safari showed the actual URL, an ip address. Step 1 of the scam was accomplished.

She then wised up and asked me about the page when it asked for her credit card info, I was pissed/surprised/disappointed. I thought how she could do this, I always tell her about stuff like this and Martha B. went through the same exact thing last year. So we quickly changed her eBay password and let it go. Hopefully nothing else comes about and something like this won’t happen again.

So just now I noticed that I got the same message, sent to my junk mail box of GMail. Wanting to just post about it I noticed a wonderful feature of GMail. GMail not only put the phishing scam email in my spam box but Gmail created a warning header and also made the entire message an image, disabling its links. So if a reader doesn’t notice it’s labeled “spam” or the bright red warning they will be stopped because they cannot click on the dreadful link.

FYI: I have been using GMail exclusively.