We did consider that possibility but the ebay acct. hadn't been used in quite some time and she is aware of the phishing emails and to avoid them. Re: gmail, I have gotten some phishing/scammer/spam emails from gmail and attempts to get the the source of the email (i.e. the ISP) end at Google. I assume that is why they may be prefered as a good place to launch scams/spams, and phishing expeditions. --- "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Nelson wrote: > > > Surprise, surprise this was all done from Nigeria. > > A hotbed of enterprising, cyber-thieving maggots. > > > We have no idea how they got into the accounts > but an IT > > pro told us that ebay isn't the most secure site > on > > the block. So be careful! > > Did she consider that she might have been the victim > of a phishing attack before? A very official-looking > email/web-page may have tricked her into entering > her account information. > > Dana > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to > www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the > same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.