I just got one of those "Hi, we need your account details. Because if we're not sure you are who you are you wouldn't answer your own email or know your own login".
How stupid do they think I am? Actually, they're not going after me. This one pretended to be from eBay. In the past I've got one for a bank that I didn't belong to and also a fake one for Amazon. They are easy to spot. First of all is the bad premise and second is that if you look at the email you often see that they don't know what to use for the text that is connected to the email address. Often they leave spaces out of your name or use the info from before the @ sign. Which usually isn't your full name.
Posted by Jeff at September 10, 2003 09:14 PM