Wow, I fell for a Phishing scheme
I'm soooo embarrassed about this, but compelled to share it. I have an eBay account, like many of us do, which is linked to PayPal, which in turn is linked to my bank account. My wife and I share my eBay account, because it seems to make sense, since we share everything else in our lives. Today she was checking her email, and it was from eBay, with a message about some item she bid on, and she'd be reported if she didn't respond. I thought this was strange, since her email account isn't listed on our eBay account, but thought we'd check it out. *This is where my brain was simply not engaging correctly.* My wife, however, did say, "Honey, why would I get this email?", and "Isn't this strange?". WHY DON'T I LISTEN? Testosterone? Age? No, just plain STUPIDITY... The links in the frighteningly familiar email went to a cleverly crafted website that asked for user/pass information to the account. "Strange, that password isn't wor...