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Worst E-mail Scams Right Now {Switched.com}
Jul 16th 2008 9:26AM You can also fight back. Many ligitimate businesses (Paypal is one) want to see the phishing e-mails so they can investigate and shut the bogus sites down. You need only contact the real business via internet, or phone and they will give you their investigative division that looks into and tracks down these thieves. Example: if you get a phishing e-mail claiming to be Paypal you forward the e-mail to spoof@paypal.com. They investigate all such e-mails. If you get one impersonating the IRS, you can forward it to phishing@irs.gov, and that will get the feds on them. Fight back, and help get these thieves. One more tip that I got from Paypal: if you put your mouse cursor over the link in an e-mail, WITHOUT clicking on it, a web address pops up at the bottom of the screen. If that address is different than the one in the link, then it is a phishing e-mail and you should NOT click on the link.
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