On 11/11/2013 18:13, tim...... wrote:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 10/11/2013 22:30, Tim+ wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 10/11/2013 11:34, tim...... wrote:

"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
...
Tim+ :
I got the below email last week and although it did refer to a
domain
that I
own, I didn't like the way that the links to 123reg didn't
appear to
lead
to 123reg.

http://www.zen31010.zen.co.uk/Inaccu...%20details.eml



In case of doubt it's better to view the plain text version of the
message rather than the HTML. If you do that you'll find nothing more
suspicious than a missing apostrophe.

so the links to unknown third party sites go away in the plain text
version, do they?

Can't see any links to unknown third party sites... 8 or 9 go to
webfusion.com, and one to 123-reg.co.uk



The point is/was, webfusion was an unknown link to me. Given that the
standard way to check a link is to see if it links to where it says it
links to before you follow it, surely this is bad practice?

Hence my original comment - yes they were being a bit daft. However
they do make the webfusion brand fairly public - most 123-reg pages
have "Copyright © 2013 Webfusion Ltd." at the bottom of them for example.

but I repeat

There is no need really - I agree with you ;-)

how is that helpful if the recipient had never heard of webfusion and is
likely to have no confidence that they are legitimate. Just because
they have a "professional" looking web page adds absolutely nothing to
the equation here, because the staring point for a scammer is to have a
professional looking web page

Well I was kind of assuming the OP was a 123-reg user and had already
visited their pages at least enough times in the past to register and
administer their domain. (If they were not they would not have received
the email in the first place).


--
Cheers,

John.

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