I check the Properties on suspicious e-mails...pretty easy to identify the
fakes. There are some super-good ones, though, like those spoofing
Washington Mutual...I send those to because the Properties
looks like a real Wamu link...but Wamu assures me that they do not send
e-mails requesting information.

Bob Gardner

"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Steve Foley" wrote:

What they've been doing recently is opening the real site with the
address
bar showing, and opening a login popup, showing no address bar. More
often
than not, the popup doesn't work. They're getting shut down pretty
quickly,
but I'm sure some people are going for it. I usually type in a few
obscenities after I send the report to the correct party.

They are also getting increasingly sophisticated. I used to be able to
tell immediately from the shoddy graphics that it wasn't the real thing.
Not long ago, I got one phishing for my Citibank info that I couldn't tell
apart from the real thing.

It also used to be that you could be careful and look in the status bar
(or
wherever your particular browser shows you a preview of a link the mouse
is
hovering over) to make sure it was real. The text on the screen would say
"www.citibank.com", but the URL preview would say "123.456.78.90" and
you'd
know it was a fake. Now they're building URLs in the links with non-ascii
characters which display in your browser looking like the real thing, but
resolve to a different IP.