Phishing ... protect yourself:

Use your best judgment when on the Internet. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Delete email messages that ask for personal or financial information. By hijacking bank, e-tailer and credit card company brand names, phishers convince recipients to respond. Verify the organization exists by going to their website or by phoning them.
In the same way, question and verify emails that ask you to call a telephone number.
Look out for e-mails with "spleling" mistakes, grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Avoid clicking on links. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites.
Invest in an anti-virus program, a firewall, a Spam blocker and antispyware technology. Keep these updated to be sure they continue to do their job as new technologies evolve.
Do not send personal or financial information through email.
Information exchanged with an address beginning with "https" is encrypted using Secure Socket Layers (SSL) before transmitting. Look at the bottom of the Internet window for a closed padlock which denotes the site uses this encryption.
Check that an email is addressed to you in the body of the e-mail. Verify the information to ensure it is not a random e-mail sent to thousands of people.
Establish family rules for Internet use.