Tens of thousands of compromised Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Webmail accounts are being used to gin up traffic for dodgy, bargain-basement electronics vendors online that only accept bank transfers and Western Union payments, security experts warn.

Over the weekend, the credentials for at least ten thousand Microsoft Hotmail accounts were briefly posted online. Microsoft acknowledged the incident on Monday, saying the accounts were stolen as part of a phishing scam. Since then, other news outlets have reported that large caches of Yahoo and Gmail account credentials also were found online… More