Kevin Donahue has an excellent post and a little trick to make sure you aren't scammed by a fake URL.
The following is from one of his posts.
Help Prevent Spoofed URLs in Internet Explorer - After reading about the new Paypal scam involving spoofed websites, I decided there must be a way to double check websites without jumping through too many hoops. Turns out that the Microsoft website has some advice on identifying spoofed websites on the Microsoft Knowledge Base. (Now if they would only fix the problem!)I took some of their suggestions and create a bookmarklet that will identify spoofed websites. The javascript was actually written by Microsoft, but putting it into an easy to use bookmarklet was my idea. The script will test the actual source URL against the current page url. If they are different, it may be a spoofed URL.
To use the bookmarklet, simply drag and drop the link to your favorites or links bar. To use it, just click the bookmarklet when you arrive on a suspicios site.
Click on the link below to go to Kevin Donahue.com and get the bookmarklet.
KevinDonahue.com has come up with a Spook Check Bookmarklet.
Link via Scriptygoddess.
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