To put things straight...
1) many businesses
would state IPs, depending on what the mail is about
3) many businesses
would mail you instead of calling you. Not everybody lives in the same country where the business is located.
5) I don't see what registered trademarks would have to do with determining if an email is fake or not. Those reg. trademarks can be copied just as well...
6) They would state your full name only if you entered your full name somewhere...
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The only proper way to see if an email is fake or not is to go to the official business site by yourself, thus without following the link in the email...
Everything else (like those points listed above is pure guesswork and shouldn't be used as a 'guideline' at all).
quote:
Originally posted by NiteMare
NEVER EVER, EVER just click a link in an e-mail, expecially for banks/paypal/ebay sort of thing
just open up your web browser and enter the website, such as https://www.paypal.com, if its important enough for them to email you about it, they will deffinatly give you a warning or a message when you log in normally, if not, its a hoax, 9 times out of 10
if you hover your mouse over the link, it will say something like "http://23.23.56.24/paypal.com/login.php" or some thing like that, which is deffinatly not how you get to paypal.
so again, never click e-mail links randomly
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