I just got this email from "DAZ" and thought a warning should go out. Already contacted the real DAZ. Happy rendering to all! Subject: Your Platinum Club Subscription From: www@daz3d8.securesites.net Date: August 26, 2005 03:10:20 EDT To: texboy@earthlink.net Greetings from DAZ! This email is to notify you that your Platinum Club Membership is about to expire due to missing or invalid credit card information associated with this item. In order to not have your Platinum Club Membership terminated, you simply need to login to your account profile page in the DAZ3D online store and provide the proper information so that your account may auto-renew your membership. To do this, please click here, and you will be taken to your account profile page immediately following login: https://secure.daz3d.com/account.php If you do not wish to renew your Platinum Club Membership, please go to the above link and click on the link underneath where your membership is listed so that your membership does not attempt to auto-renew. Thank you for your time and loyalty as a customer, The DAZ Sales Team NOTE: If you feel that you have received this message in error, please visit our contact us page at http://www.daz3d.com/support/contact_support.php

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That's a real message.

Go via the DAZ website and check your account.

Looks real, but DAZ are pretty stupid to expect people to login using an email link, that, as the OP was quite rightly worried about, is the first sign of phishing.

Some things to look at:

• Expand the header of the e-mail. If any of the "from" lines do NOT come from the sender (PayPal, DAZ, eBay, etc), then it's probably a phishing e-mail. If you see a line that says "x-from: nosender@mymail.ru" then it's a phishing e-mail: PayPal, DAZ, etc. would not be sending their e-mail through a Russian server (the ".ru" address).
• Pass your mouse over the link in the e-mail. Your e-mail program, like a browser, should display the real link in a status bar (probably at the bottom of the screen). If it matches the URL, then it's real. But, if the URL says "http://www.paypal.com" and the mouse-over link says "http://213.45.67/loginpaypal/home.php", then it's definitely a phishing e-mail. You should ALWAYS be wary about clicking links in an e-mail. Whenever possible, you should go to the site, login manually, and then update the information that they request- especially if the e-mail asks you to click a link to update credit card information. --John