[Premium-Rx] Be Careful: The eBay HF1000 Phishing Scam

[Tim Shoppa]

"stephous" <stephous at att.net> wrote:
> It's easy to respond to emails before understanding the consequences. If you
> log on securely and find no messages you have discovered the first red
> warning light. Someone is Phishing!

IMHO, the warning light has been blinking on extra-hot for years
now with respect to this kind of scam.

It's sad that this has rendered E-mail completely useless for notifications
etc. but around about 1997 I was getting so much Spam that it was already
there.

Same thing for phone scams too. If I get a message saying to call
back my credit card company at this 1-800 number and I call and the
first thing they ask for is my card number, then how am I supposed
to usefully get notified of any real problem by my card company? I
ignore any E-mail from the card company, I ignore any phone call
from them, doesn't leave a lot left!

Maybe some of us are so hypersensitized that we're instantly cynical
about any financial message we get. As Warren Buffet once said, "If you've
been playing poker for half an hour and still don't know who the patsy
is, you're the patsy".

Tim.