At least the one you posted asked only for email address and password.
I've seen ones purporting to be from banks or credit-card companies (but
never from one where I actually have an account, so I know right away
that they are fraudulent) that ask for my SSN and mother's maiden name
and other personal information.

One way of foiling many of these "phishing" emails is to turn OFF HTML
in email, if that option is available; it is in Mozilla. Then you will
see the misspellings and general garbage that would be hidden by the
copy of the genuine Website if HTML were turned on.

Perce


On 06/21/05 07:56 pm Colbyt tossed the following ingredients into the
ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

I apologize in advance if this off topic post offends anyone. I have no
commercial interest in this post.

I am sick and tired of all the spoof emails. And then a friend of my wife's
almost got taken in by one.

So I created a basic information page about spoof emails complete with
screen shots.

For most of you it is something you already know. It is for people like my
wife's friend that I want to help.

It can take up to 4 minutes to down load over a 28.8 connection.

http://www.lexkyweb.com/spoof.html