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Tom Ritchford wrote: > In general, never ever click on a link from ANYONE that involves > money... your bank, paypal, ebay, your credit card company. > > The link may be deceptive... if you can, type in the name you expect to >get. > > This avoids issues like the paypaI.com hoax (more obvious when you see > the URL as paypai.com)... I received a relatively sophisticated PayPal "phishing" email recently. They were using some sort of redirection mechanism so that the URL that you went to was initially in the paypal.com domain, but you would be almost immediately redirected to the scam site. So the usual technique of letting the mouse hover over the link and checking the true link in the status bar didn't work, it looked legitimate. You should *always* manually type in the URL of any page that will require a login. Oddly enough, despite the time spent on the redirection trick, the scammers apparently didn't have time to run a spell checker on their email. Jeff