Images: How IE7 beta protects you from phishing
Summary: Although it's not a part of IE7, this screen shot of Outlook shows an email that's probably from a phisher because the user doesn't have an account at Chase. Phishers send their emails to millions of people in hopes that some of the people who receive them actually have an account on the financial site's systems and can be fooled into clicking on the links and submitting their login credentials.
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In Outlook, when you mouse over a link, it will show you what the real Web address behind that link is. In this case, it is definitely different from the link being displayed. Whereas the link being displayed points to the Chase.com domain, the actual link hiding behind it goes to the notifychase.com domain. This is not Chase's domain, but rather, the phisher's.
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