Some mail clients - Apple mail for instance, will popup the real URL underlying 
the link if you hover over the link in the mail.
The number of times paypal turns out to be something like 
'grab.themoney.andrun.com' is quiet interesting! It will do it for email 
addresses too :-)
73 de M0XDF
-- 
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and
pretty soon you have a dozen.
--John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

On 17 Aug 2011, at 04:09, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> When there's a web URL given, the safe approach is to open your browser and
> type the address in. That's what I did. 
> 
> The real danger is that clicking on a link may take you to a site that is
> *not* the one shown or launch malware that is not obvious. 

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