How do you know?
Recently, a client forwarded us a message that sounded pretty good but yet too good to be true. Her question was "Is this a scam?"
Our response: Usually if you have to ask, it is a scam.
If there are strange characters, page breaks, indentations and other incorrect or choppy english, it is usally a scam.
Here is an article about this particular scam our client received:
http://www.seony.com/20090922-marc-schneider-phd-spam-under-www-mplw-net/
Another good way to test if something is a scam is just to type the URL, EMAIL and SCAM into Google and see what shows up. For this one we searched for "mplw" and "scam". And got our answer.
Some helpful articles about avoiding email scams:
1. How to recognize a phishing scam email
2. How Not to Get Hooked by a ‘Phishing’ Scam
3. How to Avoid Email Scams to Prevent Identity Theft
4. How To Avoid Email Scams
5. Email Scams