Phishing... Take Care!

Hi,

Wikipedia define 'phishing' as 'the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

I get so many of these messages it becomes rather annoying to be honest.  But majority have poor english, spelling and other rather obvious give-aways.

This one I just received though is interesting as it looks fairly genuine.  If you follow the link it provides, the page it leads to seems no different to Bell's homepage.

If I was a Canadian resident, I'd probably have been fooled by it.  And I'm sure many have been.

The internet can be a murky place, take care!

Regards,

Musab

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From: Bell Canada [mailto:billing.department@bell.ca]
Sent: 31 January 2011 23:29
Subject: ***BULK*** Billing department

 

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