Email scam/fraud?

I have just received a phishing email to my ntl email address from service@egg.co.uk asking for my bank account details...........I don't even bank with them and anyway Egg Bank is egg.com not egg.co.uk





When I held the cursor over a link entitled "Equal Housing Lender" at the bottom of the email it said it opens Equal Housing Lender pop up window and when I clicked on it IT OPENED UP MY YAHOO.COM EMAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





How on earth has that happened?





I will not be using my email account with you until you can tell me how to prevent this and will be warning all my contacts of the problems with your service.





I look forward to your reply.

Email scam/fraud?
Thanks for the warning. I try to look out for scams but I'm going to be extra careful with my Yahoo account now.
Reply:Usually mousing over a link will show it's true target, If it isn't where you think it should go, go to the site immediately. If you don't use anything like it at all, report it as spam ASAP.





btw, yahoo is my dummy email address, my real one is for sites I fully trust.
Reply:wat a scam!
Reply:I am not exactly sure what has happened...But, please google spoofstick or Core Street.com and download their free program called spoofstick - it will install a toolbar that will give you the correct URL of any site you click on.It has saved me numerous times.This tiny little program is a Godsend!
Reply:My experience with phishing email is that, mouse over to any part of the email body, it is clickable, not just the URL that you saw, because the entire msg body is an image. The sender/spammer can put anything for the URL for an image.





It is not your account that is being hacked, I am quite sure.





aside, next time before you click on any suspicious emails, mouse over the msg body and check your browser status bar to see the REAL web address it says.





For example, if you were ebay user, ebay email now says "please type in http://www.ebay.com" instead of saying "pls click on this link", because they know manually entering is the best safe method.