God, I feel like an idiot.

[mandolin]

So AFTER I've spent three months working on a paper about personal Internet privacy, part of which covers phishing scams, I got a "Message from eBay Member" question that made no sense:

I am interested in your listed items. I would like to know if i be buying more than one product and if you could offer me a good discount. Thanks

What listed items? Without thinking, I clicked on the link, logged in, started to reply - then realized what I'd done.

Panicked, closed that window, logged in to the REAL eBay site and IMMEDIATELY changed my password to something else.

The good news is that the site used has a traceable domain name, and I'm reporting the owner to Verio Hosting right now.

God, how stupid can I get?

Anyone know if the password change is enough? (Phishing is not my section of the report, but I should have known anyway.)

Comments

[jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com]

If you're running IE, I would run a virus scan as well, to make sure it download and install any trojans.

[alex-garg.livejournal.com]

Changing the password should be good enough, but (and I'm not an eBay user so I don't know how this works) if you have your bank information on your profile, I would pay very close attention to your next account statement.

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Bank info is not provided on my profile. And you can't see my full credit card number. Ran a check through my profile info to make sure nothing was changed.

Scammer took her fake page down, though. Hope my abuse report got to Verio in time.

Hmm...

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

...does Ebay have a phone number you can call? They should know.

Were you on a PC from work or a Mac at home? (I suspect if the latter, you have less to worry about, but yeah, I'd worry about Trojans.)

Re: Hmm...

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

PC from work. I'll run a virus scan.

*wants to go to Rhode Island and bitchslap "Kimberly Young"*

Re: Hmm...

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

I'm in the account ebay has, it looks like l have something similar.

Or possibly they finally decided to get rid of my account for inactivity since i haven't used it since I bought Tommy Page's last CD, um... 3 or 4 years ago... I think 4 years ago.