Beware of Z-Stuff Phishing Email?

I saw that in my Spam mail this am. Of coarse I deleted it. If I don't know who it is, I delete. 

IMHO, the best way to protect yourself from phishing attacks is to avoid clicking on any links in an Email, even if you think you know the sender.
For example, if your bank sends you an email with a link, don't use it.
Either go to the bank via your own bookmarked link, or contact them directly to find out what is going on.

Got to watch those attachments too.

Dennis owns Z Stuff. But it is spam.

I got two of them they both went to my junk folder. They contained links to a porn site in the subject line. I did not open them just deleted them.

C W Burfle posted:

IMHO, the best way to protect yourself from phishing attacks is to avoid clicking on any links in an Email, even if you think you know the sender.
For example, if your bank sends you an email with a link, don't use it.
Either go to the bank via your own bookmarked link, or contact them directly to find out what is going on.

Got to watch those attachments too.

One way to also check if it from who you are ( works in yahoo mail anyway) is run your cursor across the sender name and it will show you the whole address, that way you know if it came from someone you know. but be sure you check the ending ( ie . com/.net etc,etc. ) as sometimes they will use the email address of your bank for instance but change it to .net or something like that.

This stuff is usually pretty easy to identify.  It comes out of the blue from someone you know.  Someone has hacked into their email list.  There is usually a single link they hope you are going to click on because the message is from someone you know.  Maybe there is some text.  If there is, you are usually wondering why you are getting this message and the English usually is not very good.  The subject line maybe absent or misleading.

Did anyone alert Dennis?