[DavidG]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
4) Just because it is from a big, well known company does NOT prevent it from being a scam!

Ditto on this. here is a scam I could have fallen for if the scammer had not been so greedy.
It was (well claimed to be) from my ISP (sympatico.ca) claiming my account was not up todate. The kind of message you get when say your Visa expires and they don't have the new expiry date.
So I click the link and get to a Sympatico page (a fake one but very well done). The only thing that triggered the warning flags were that the moron asked for some very personal info the the ISP would never want (ie PIN number, drivers license etc) Had he just asked for the Visa I may have fallen for it.