[jyl]

The latest phish technique is to include a little virus with the email, so that when you open the phish email, the virus is activated, and then when you type the company's URL directly into your webbrowser like you are supposed to do, the virus intercepts it and sends you to the fake website.

It has gotten to the point that I ignore all email messages from anyone that I have an account with - eBay, PayPal, banks, etc. Between phishing and spam filters, I feel businesses should no longer consider email a reliable way to contact customers. Back to good old snail mail.