I received a rather alarming email today from what appeared to be PayPal, confirming an iPod purchase that I never made. I get well over 100 spam and phishing emails every day, but I confess this one made me blink.

This email was not from PayPal, but they wanted me to believe it was. "Hey, wait a minute!" I cried not quite aloud. "I didn't order any iPod!"

Of course I hadn't. And I had not been charged for any iPod. This was yet another tactic in the world of phishing, and I could only groan at how many innocent people will be suckered by it. It happens all too often.