Wow! I've really started a good discussion here. I must admit the one I got wrong was the earthlink - as they all went to the correct site,
www.earthlink.net. I looked at the url as it appread in the browser, and that was what got me.
They have been very clever with that, the link uses the "uid:password@www.site.blah" - it has the earthlink pages in the part that the browser interprets as the username, followed by a huge long space, so the rest of the link falls off the right hand side of your screen. Then it has the rest, and the link is able to actually go anywhere without you seeing it until you click it. Course, I click links sometimes if I'm not sure, but I always make damn sure I look at the exact address I have arrived at. If anything takes me to a page that has a wrong address, or to something that turns your address display off, I close it. Hasn't failed me yet!