I received a suspicious email last night from a "Mrs Rose Wealth" about an opportunity with the "Stat-Oil Group". The first thing that tipped me off was the formatting of the email, there were no line breaks, the email appeared as one long paragraph. As I read the email, it sounded very much like a version of the foreign payment receiving officer scam.

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Over the last couple of days, I have received an email from "Bank of America" and "Wachovia". These messages were addressed to one of the accounts that I use for this site. This email address gets a lot of spam and I would never associate it with a bank account, so right away I knew something was "phishy". Now you might not be so lucky and actually recieve a message like this addressed to an account you actually would use for this purpose.

There are couple basic precautions you can take when looking at email messages and any websites the messages use.

First: If you are using Outlook Express, from the view menu item, make sure that status bar is checked. The status bar is the solid bar at the bottom of the email that will show you where a link is actually taking you.

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