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In article >,
says...
> wrote:
> > How Not to Get Hooked by an Internet Scam
> >
> > Internet scammers casting about for people's financial information
> > have a new way to lure unsuspecting victims: They go "phishing."
> > Phishing is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to
> > deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers,
>
> Anyone with half a brain knows not to give out information like this. I've
> personally gotten several "notices" allegedy from eBay wanting to confirm my
> credit card and bank information. eBay does not ASK you for this
> information, and certainly not via email. There are methods for reporting
> this scam on the eBay website.
>
> Last week I got an email, allegedly from PayPal, stating I'd added an
> "authorized" email address to access my PayPal account. Sorry, I'm no fool.
> I signed onto PayPal NOT from the link in the email and reported the idiot
> with the complete text of the message and the message source information.
>
> For other email scams, check the message source and report them to the ISP
> listed under 'abuse' or 'complaints to'. Chances are this won't go very far
> but at least you get the satisfaction of having done something.
>
> If anyone actually *believes* someone in Nigeria will send them $2 million
> out of the $10 million their dear departed father left but they cannot
> access without first putting it in their bank, they deserve to be scammed.

There was and probably is still a web site on there where people have
taken advantage of the 419 scammers. They do various things like make
them hold up signs with interesting sayings on them, etc.

On a few of them they've actually physically tracked the scammer in
London of all places. The police were very interested in that.