I received a suspicious email today and after a quick look realized that it was a phishing email. First off, it is addressed to someone named Moarah, beats me who that is. Then when I moused over the link I saw that the target of the link was very different from what I expected as a matter of fact it pointed to a completely different domain than one that Citibank would use. Another big tip off that this is not a valid email.

Here is the full text of the email:

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From: Citibank
To: Moarah
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:10 AM
Subject: you have 1 new security message alert <message id: rr3956812027521>

Dear CitiBusiness customer,
Financial institutions are frequent targets of fraudsters. We have implemented security measures to protect our systems from attack, but increasingly, our customers must also protect themselves.
Our new CitiBusiness Form (CBF) will help you to protect your data from misuse, unauthorized access, loss, alteration or destruction.
You must complete CBF on a regular basis.
Please click on the link below to open CBF:
CitiBusiness Form
This email has been automatically generated.

If actually tried to click the link contained in this email, it would have taken you to:

h__p://citibusinessonline.da-us.citi.com.newdom.tv/citibusinessonline/morestuff...

If you receive a message like this, it is a scam, don't click any of the links, don't reply to it, just deleted it.