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Re: Don't click on email links best defense

said by JPCass See Profile:
It seems to me that some entirely new security mechanism is needed, so that users can be educated to look for something unique that a fraudulent link or website is unable to provide, rather than trying to teach relatively technical details like the difference between clicking on an address versus typing it in. As a crude example, every secure website could have an intermediate authentication step to prove that the site really does "know" you after a user ID is put in, but before a password is submitted.
Besides being naturally suspicious of all emails not from close friends, I installed the FREE "Earthlink Toolbar" that has a SCAMBLOCKER component. That keeps a continually updated list of phishing scams in the wild and pops up an unavoidable warning that a site may be a scam when it is visited.
»www.earthlink.net/earthlinktoolb···lbarinfo
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