Here phishie phishie

sheesh how dumb do phishers think we are?

As dumb as experience proves i guess.
This afternoon i got a threatening email my on my non-gmail account. It claimed to be from the provider of that account.
The email said that as there is "congestion in all Yahoo! Mail user accounts, there shall be a removal exercise of all used and unused Yahoo! Accounts. Yahoo! Inc would be shutting down several accounts", and if i do not want mine to be among them, please click the provided link so that they'll know i'm real.

Please.

That is, in the first place, a standard phishing ploy.

Here phishie phishie, come and give me your private information so I can catch you.

If you're skilled at reading "headers," you might find it interesting to click your View tab & see what you find.  That drops a menu.  Here one of the choices will be Headers, with choices of Normal or Full, something like that.  A full header will have tons of gobbedlygook, meaningful to pros and geeks, but if you look carefully anyway, non-intiates might see that a suspect message comes from some unexpected place.  Like a US firm is sending from overseas or unknown origin.

In this case today, i didn't have to open up the header.
My would-be phisher thoughtfully used his gmail account.
If this threatening email were genuine, which it wouldn't be, the sender would have sent from an account of the company threatening to disconnect my service.  (Anyone at Google  or Yahoo want to know more?)

The internet is like a highway.  Stop, look and listen.  The bank account you save may be your own.

You can find many phishing information links online, with advice on how to not be phished.  Just now i found 1,580,000 links by googling "phishing protection".  Here is a Wikipedia description of the technique tried on me.