Look, you're really just wasting your time by reporting phishing scams to eBay. All it does is make you feel like you've done something about it. eBay can't stop phishing any more than you can stop the wind. All they can do is try to shut down the web site linked in the phishing email. By the time they do that, it's already too late for a number of victims. Here's how your email address got on the phisher's list. You sent an email to a friend. It's just that simple. Rewind 7 months - when your friend bought his computer, it likely came with a "free" 6 mo. subscription to an antivirus program. He didn't renew, then he got an email telling him that someone sent him an e-greeting card. He clicked on the link and unwittingly downloaded a trojan to his computer. The trojan scanned for personal information, including his contact list (that your email address is now on) and sent it off to a Russian spam gang. Then it recruited his computer into a huge botnet. The spam gang collated a huge email list and sold them to other spam/ phisher gangs on the black market. Your email address is now in the hands of hundreds - if not thousands - of scammers all over the world. They don't know if you have an eBay or WaMu account, and they don't care. They're playing a numbers game - send out the scam to as many people as possible and you will reel some in. They buy time on a botnet, inject their scam, and your friends computer - along with thousands of others - starts grinding out phishing emails to the masses. A few of the computers in the botnet host the fake web site that's linked in the email. Botnets use sophisticated software - if you cut off the computer that controls the botnet, control just switches to another computer. It's like playing "whack a mole," and ISP's do little to cut off infected zombie computers. What can you do? Other than changing your email address every couple of months, the best option is to use an email service with a good spam filter. One of the best out there at the moment is gmail. Most importantly, keep your antivirus updated! I'll get off the soapbox now. Loran