I get at least one eBay phishing scam delivered to my yahoo mailbox per day. Recently they've come in the form of a "respond to a bidder" email that urgently wants to get in touch with me about the cash they just sent. (Boy...do I love those ones.)
Today I clicked through and proceeded to enter my favorite fake ebay username and password, punctuated with four-letter words throughout and got the most entertaining confirmation page [pictured at left.]
"We are sorry ... but our machines apparently had a few errors so the email was sent to several of our customers. Rest assured that your private data is in a safe place..."
Your private info is in a safe place! I love that! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
"Stick figures in peril"
A community of photographers who've made it their mission to show gallows humor in everyday "yellow & black" warning signs.
Typically they're aimed at folks with less-than-average intelligence. Who else would need a sign to tell them NOT to stand in between a train and the platform or risk having their torso twisted like a GLAD garbage bag on trash day?
Click here and explore.
Answer: Never
I'm not even sure if AOL still uses that line. (Or if anyone still uses AOL for that matter.)
Care to walk around like you are someone important with a FedEx package under your arm? Look no further!
You can't buy this t-shirt online yet but check out this furniture made of those FREE packing boxes while you're at it.
Apparently FedEx ain't too pleased with the website, the shirt or the idea that someone is using their free packing boxes for anything other than shipping or product-placement in a film featuring Tom Hanks. You can check out their cease and desist letter here.
The "FedEx furniture guy" has some solid legal top-guns in his corner from the 'Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic' at Standford University. Their response was impressive. (I got flash-backs of 'Kramer versus Kramer' while reading it.) They reference the high-profile case, Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions where Mattel lost the case to someone who was posing Barbie in (umm) unflattering positions for a profit.
The Stanford Legal group was even professional enough (after delivering an ass-kicking to the FedEx lawyers) not to end the letter with, "That's alright...that's OK...you're going to work for us some day!" (A taunt often heard during basketball losses to UCLA at Pauly Pavilion.)
How perfect is this? I'm guessing they don't get many illegally parked cars here.
Change is good
