Don't be fooled by any "Spammer" or "Hacker"

I recived a mail from ****.com that my ***.com password has to be reset. Please click on the following link.

Usually a person will take it legitimate. But I took few steps and found it to be fraud.

1.Take your mouse pointer to the link, but don't click upon it.Notice the "STATUS BAR". It will show the whole link.If it is redirecting you to any other webpage simply get to know it is fraud. A very known haching trick.

2.Clicking the link will open you up a password reset page where you have to reset your password.Notice at status bar, right side is there is any yellow lock icon or not.Preferablly every site does it's password authentication on a secured link.Which will show a lock at bottom and HTTPS:// instead of http://. If not, plz avoid the page, since it is a common spamming trick.

3.Once you put the password for verification, if it says "wrong password. verify again", though you spelled everything right and met the password policy, plz don't verify it again. It's a regular hacking trick.

4.Classify the link before clicking.As I told you the first step, look to the status bar for the given link, and the have a keen observation that, weather the link contains "%20" or not. Because anything before this string will not be considered by system and it will redirect you to another page within seconds. Be aware...

I think this will help you till some point to detect a fraud and a legitimate link, before clicking it and geting the system/account compromised by any Hacker.

Definitely all comments are appreciated..