Internet threat exposed

[etoven]

But... phishing's been around, like, forever.

And, my solution is simpler than downloading Microsoft's Mozilla Clone; Don't ever click links in your email that you didn't expressly request.

I'm a god damn genius.

I would think you would wish to respond to a eBay item question, and the URL masking on the site the link takes you to was damn near brilliant.

The spoof er in this case made use of the fact that an eBay URL is usually full of post data redirects, and query strings. The average person would just click on the email link to respond to the question, and probably would not even look at the URL in the address bar. Remember the email sender address was spoofed, the message is bit for bit identical to the real thing and appears to be emailed from eBay servers.