The Security Mentor

The scammers who try to trick you into giving them passwords or credit card numbers work by sending you to their own web site while making you think you're going to your bank's web site.

They have a lot of clever tricks for doing this.

I just looked at a web site with many examples of how to make one web address look like another one. I used FireFox to look at it. Every time I moved the mouse over one of the fake links, FireFox showed me the real destination in the status bar at the bottom.

FireFox also lets you know when you're on a "secure" connection by highlighting the address and showing you the real address at the bottom of the window.

Does this mean you can relax? No. The scammers will work out new tricks. But meantime, FireFox is giving you more chances to detect a scam before you fall into it.