lululee opened this issue on Dec 23, 2003 ยท 22 posts
Armorbeast posted Wed, 24 December 2003 at 5:06 AM
Well,Ebays had this going on almost ever since they bought/merged with PayPal and it seems to have begun evolving from there.The real problem isn't that its happening...its the attitude that people have to be stupid to fall for it.My best friend had that attitude and I was present when the dumbass got hit by a virus passed via his AIM messenger...destroyed his hard drive and over a thousand dollars of software he "didn't" back up to disc!!You don't have to be stupid to fall for a scam like this...there should be a way to prevent it.The Ebay spoof actually used an Ebay url for part of its run...seems that Ebay could have prevented this (or at least seen it coming) and blitz its members with warnings about spoofs being done of ebay!!!
Even more sad is that other people warn you not to open certain messages or visit sites because of viruses...turns out to be a false warning or worse and can be just as destructive to a business as an actual virus!!Wouldn't you hate it if Rosity put out a $10.00 coupon for any item in the marketplace (like DAZ does) and someone has warned you not to open rosity emails because of a possible virus?
If the end goal of learning is genius...why are most geniuses failures at learning?