[tom406]

These phishing scams Chad is talking about are really well done. They're out there in both Ebay and Paypal forms. The Ebay ones are set up in a way that it sounds like a seller you've never heard of with an item you've never seen is telling you this is your third and final notice to pay up before Ebay gets medeval on your a$$. So as you panic and "log in" to fix this mess, they have your ID and password. I made the mistake of logging in before I was totally awake one morning, and right after I did the "log-in" and gave them my info, it went to a vaguely worded page that I knew immediately wasn't Ebay. So I had about 10 minutes to go and change every sensitive password I could think of before I had to get the kids off to school. (Think of how many log-ins reference your e-mail and how many of us use a common password everywhere). Doing all of your correspondence through Ebay is the best, but at least run your cursor over their "log in" links and look in the corner of your screen to where that log in will take you. The random address or hotmail account shown tells the tale.