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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Is this what you mean?
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Those are the headers. You know how in, say, IE you can view the code behind a web page - all the HTML? Well you should be able to do the same for an HTML email. My email client is The Bat! and I just press F9. I have 96 spam emails today and not one of them is banking email, so I can't post any code myself
Usually a URL is used as a link, but when you click the link you're taken to a different site. Very easy to do:
https://www.hornyteens.com
<a href="http://www.ntlworld.com">https://www.hornyteens.com</a>
There are other tricks, such as using image maps.
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Originally Posted by scastle
I know that none of us will be fooled by any of these scams, but it is worth remembering that any company with security worth a damn will never ask you to validate your User ID and password or pin by email. In my experience, with most e-banking systems, if you need to do anything to the security of the account, you need to contact the bank IN PERSON or on the phone.
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Also look for the lock symbol that indicates SSL - the Abbey email I received was perfect because it used the bank's CSS, images and Javascript (so much for security). The only give-away was the lack of SSL when I clicked to logon to e-banking.
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Originally Posted by scastle
It's also worth pointing out that any halfway decent email client will show the actual address of a link in the email in the status bar (Thunderbird does). Not sure if either Outlook or Outlook express do this.
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Status bar text can be altered using a simple bit of Javascript
