Mark, Since you use FireFox, check out SpoofStick at: http://www.spoofstick.com/
This is the best plug-in I've found for spotting bogus web sites. Displays up in the left side of the FireFox OR Internet Explorer tool bar the "real" web sit you are currently viewing. Just adds another layer of visibility to these phishing expeditions. Bob I get these with amazing frequency. As Bill has said, these folks are a bunch of dopes, because of their (to some of us) obvious use of improper grammar and spelling. But they keep at it, because enough innocent folks are bigger dopes apparently, and fall into these obvious traps. I use Firefox as my browser and Outlook as my email client, but I pre-screen all messages on the POP server first with Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net.) I have an older version (2.0.40 beta) and love it. It enables me to flag messages right on the server without downloading them to my computer, filter messages as from friendly sources like Phono-L, and identifies messages with attachments. Messages can be previewed from the server and deleted directly from the server without ever hitting my computer inbox. Junk messages may be marked for bouncing, which means if a legitimate return address is used, a phony bounce message will be transmitted to the sender appearing to come from my ISP's mail daemon stating that my email address is invalid. One of the best things about the program from the standpoint of identifying and combating phishers is that whenever a message contains a link, when it is previewed, Mailwasher identifies the URL which the link is actually linked to, so while the visible text of the link may read https://www.paypal.com/login, I can see that the link is actually coded to send me to http://boy_am_i_stupid_to_click_on_this.bg/paypal/please_take_my_account_inf ormation_and_steal_all_of_my_money.htm. Here is an example: I copied the following text from what Mailwasher displayed for me in the preview screen in a message my mail server received while the first messages from this thread were coming in:
