ebay phishing

[Evander]

Recently I got an scam email from an ebay phisher, and reported to ebay and they thanked me and said they have reported to the appropriate authorities.
Not long after I read an article about 20,000 stolen passwords from myspace:
http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/09/16/analyzing-20000-myspace-passwords/

I personally thought it was funny that for example, people used "f__kyou" and "password" for their passwords, so I went to the site of that phishing scam I was sent (still up 3 days after my report to ebay) and inputed some BS myself (in case anyone is curious, it always says "invalid user/pw", I suppose it was designed that way.

Besides reporting to the real site and blocking the spam, what do you guys do when you get phishing emails? And isn't 3 days rather long? If not, how long does it usually take to shut down a site? I can post the site address if anyone wants it

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Evander
Besides reporting to the real site and blocking the spam, what do you guys do when you get phishing emails?

The ones that the spam filter doesn't catch get deleted.

 

[TheSiege]

i work at a hosting company and we get phishing problems all the time, either with our free web hosting or by some means of a wget on our premium hosting, there is always someone there to take it down within minutes if not seconds. hell im the one that takes them down from 3-11pm

 

[Evander]

Got another one from some other mofo and reported. Ebay's hella fast about these- in both cases I get the auto-reply and the 2nd message saying they have reported it in less than 10 minutes.