Is yahoo doing customer survey or is it a scam

Hi Rosetrees,

Whoooaa!

Sorry, but that's really bad advice.

Never click on links in emails if you are not 100% sure of the source. Just clicking it can install nasties.

It's pointless anyway, in most email clients you can carefully hover over the link and see the destination in the bottom left.

Most of the spam I get uses subdomains to try and trick people who hover by trying to make the url look legit with a quick glance.

So if the spam is pretending to be from a bank, and the real destination is say - dodgy.com they'll do something like this -

anybank.com.dodgy.com/verifydetails/secure

I just checked a spam email and here is what the url looks like, which demonstrates this (and this is the url for the 'unsubscribe' link - another sneaky trick)-

hxxp://m.wxw.yahoo.com_ylt=HfR.Rgf/SIG=11EDvene/**hxxp://wxw.domain.com/337uyu399

So as you can see, at 1st glance it looks like a yahoo address, but in reality, it's the domain.com bit near the end (I changed the real url to domain.com and www to wxw)

Where's it showing that? In your inbox, next to the email title? If so, they've probably spoofed it.

Right click the title of the email and select properties (in outlook express) and then the 'details' tab to view the header info. You'll usually see the real address where it came from.