>Naomi, that doesn't mean anything. I have received numerous fake emails supposedly from banks and credit cards asking me to verify my login and password or to login and view some important new informationm etc, All look very realistic and all contain the exact same images and tags as the real ones except when you view the source, you can see the real address of the link. If you put a valid email from a bank beside the dummy one, you cannot tell the difference. You could even do this yourself. All you need is one valid email from any financial institution.

Aren't we here supposed to be smarter than these guys? Can't we read HTML source? It isn't too hard - we're programmers, right?

In Mozilla (and probably all other mailers based on the same engine) it's a simple ctrl+U that gives you a message source window. It's not available via rightclick, though - and IIRC the rightclick is actually the way to see it in OE or Outlook.

Just for kicks, try to traceroute the URL where you were supposed to click. Sometimes it's a quite interesting way to learn some bits of geography. The SMTP server may be anywhere in Canada, Russia, China, Utah or just about anywhere except where the alleged bank is.

And, BTW, I actually had to dig into my junk folder (Thunderbird's Bayesian filtering recognizes these well) to find one fake PayPal message as an example:

<a href=3D"http://hooraigaming.com/index.p=hp">Click 
here to activate your account</a></td>