PS I have read that the average Phishing site stays up for 54 hours before it either moves, or gets shut down.
I always veiw the message source to see that the urls and the link text coincide, and many of the eBay spoofs I have seen have hotlinks to the graphics in the real sites. But invariabley, the 'hidden' URLs point elsewhere.

As said above, no reputable site will ask you to 'comfirm' anything with an e-mail request out of the blue.

As an aside, and on topic LOL, I get more spam from yahoo than any other accounts, hotmail, webhosts etc., but this may or may not have to do with my history of signing up for newsletters. It just seems worse from yahoo, but can also be due to people out there with my Yahoo address on their infected computers!

I don't know what to say, salomon741, you seem to have a very good grip on the situation. I hope you report back to us :O)