Posted by David Sherman on Sunday, February 04, 2007 at 12:19:12 :
In Reply to: Re: Ebay Scam posted by rick bowman on Saturday, February 03, 2007 at 18:30:20 :
They don't verify instantly if it's correct. After you enter your password, etc, the ruskies either always send you to a legitimate page of the bank, paypal, ebay, etc (though not one that takes logging in) or they always say your info was incorrect. It doesn't matter; they're done with you at that point. They just wanted your password, account numbers, etc. Once they have them, they don't care if you're wondering why it wasn't "accepted".
If I wanted to fight back and was a better hacker I'd write an auto-responder that kept track of all the phishing sites and entered random bogus data in them whenever my computer was idle. Make them waste their time trying out all the bad passwords and account numbers, and maybe eventually they'd quit wasting our time sending us phishing spams.