e-mail scammers are at it again!!!!

I really do admire their ingenuity, they are obviously very clever people, but why don't they put their skills towards doing something useful and worthwhile?  Oh, stupid me - you can earn much more money by scamming people than by doing a normal days work.  I received one the other day supposedly from e-bay asking that I pay my overdue account immediately, and to make sure that they were contacting the correct person, would I send all my account details, including password, to them.  Well I contacted e-bay because I knew that I did not owe any money, sent them a copy of the e-mail and they have passed the matter on to their "spoof" trackers.  I just wonder how many thousands of people have been caught with this one?  Apart from the many I get telling me that my "check" has been returned (I've never looked at one of these, so don't know what is involved), I received one today informing me that my federal income tax payment did not go through because I used an invalid account number.  Oh boy, I wonder how many unsuspecting Americans they will catch with this one!!!!!!!