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Who among us hasn't received an email recently telling us to click a link to update our email account info, provide corrected banking login details, update our credit card information on file, and what-have-you? Most of you are savvy enough to know that these are phishing scams and don't usually fall victim to clicking on these links or disclosing confidential information, but still stuff happens. According to SecureList.com, phishing messages accounted for 0.03% of all email messages this past April. And The Internet Crime Complaint Center reports nearly $556 million in losses to cybercrime in 2009, of which about half comes from phishing.