The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #130041 Message #2923803
Posted By: Anne Lister
09-Jun-10 - 07:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Paypal scam warning
Subject: RE: BS: Paypal scam warning
I seem to be getting vast numbers of phishing emails, all of which show up on Mailwasher and get deleted before they get too far - easy enough to hover over the link and recognise it's not going where they say it is. The World of Warcraft thing is a real pain - I'm getting up to four or five of these a day, and it's easy enough not to fall for them as I have never had an account, but it's irritating all the same. I'm using Spam Cop, which will track the phishers down and alert their ISPs, but despite doing this with 80% of them they're still arriving thick and fast. So far I have resisted the urge to send them a message to let them know how unappreciated they are ... have considered, however, collecting the originating addresses and signing them up for something similarly irritating.