I don�t have accounts with wells fargo, chem bank, or several other I get
phishing mails from occasionally.  All the phisher is looking for is a
sucker in the pool.  FBI says these guys will usually find one in every
thousand mails they send out. It can take a couple hours for European, and
longer for African/Asian sites to be shut down. Phishers usually phish
outside of their own political/geographical region.  The reason is the time
lag to get them shut down if they are on opposite geographic/political
regions and laws become tangled on trying to prosecute them.

One mode of operation is to get entry into an area/group where they can
harvest the email addresses of a "community". This is effective as many
people use the same email address for everything.  As in our case many of a
"community" will deal with each other usually with paypal as the medium.  So
they get the addresses and set up a fake paypal site and look for suckers.
My paypal account also usually has no more than a few bucks in it.  But many
others use paypal as their business portal and keep some hefty balances.
jimt

On 9/23/05 12:29 AM, "Max Wellhouse" <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> wrote:

> If you're like me where I don't keep more than 10 bucks in the paypal
> account, then you don't get as many emails phishing for all that
> non-existent cash.
> 
> DM&FS
> 
> "I had a roommate that was busted for counterfeiting pennies....you
> know how they caught him?  He had the head and the tail on the wrong
> side....."
> 
> "I lost $50 the other day, so I ran an ad in the paper....'Lost
> $50..if found, just keep it'"
> 
> Steven Wright