Help in foiling phishers

Have you gotten an email from PayPal, eBay, Citibank, or even your own bank lately? Did it say something unnerving about a certain amount having been removed from your account, or you can't use your account until you update it - "click here to update"? Chances are, it's a phishing scam. The number of phishing emails that have been intercepted by MessageLabs (a large email security company serving businesses) increased 10-fold this past year - from 337,000 in January to 4.5 million last month, reported ZDNET UK.

Which means a growing number have been arriving in our families' PC in-box(es). The new news on this affects families even more: Now we and our Web-researcher kids can stumble on phishing sites just by using Google and other search engines, CNET reports. Fortunately, anti-phishing tools are emerging, and this week in my newsletter I look at one called FraudEliminator - a free toolbar - that makes a lot of sense to me. Please click to today's issue for more on this.