> This isn't actually true anymore. It's actually pretty hard to trick a user and anti-spam software with HTML these days. I see tons of phishing email using H

> This isn't actually true anymore. It's actually pretty hard to trick a user and anti-spam software with HTML these days. I see tons of phishing email using HTML email. The ones that use plaintext tend to be the least convincing ones (often the fill in the blank style) as well. Phishing messages love to include logos, and to hide the URL of the links they include which often are URL shorteners or free website/form/survey builders. One of the reasons I recommend people use plaintext email is to prevent their email from looking like spam, either to the people getting it or to spam filters. Almost all the spam we see uses HTML. I can't remember the last time I saw an unsubscribe link in a plain text message (I have seen plain text spam with instructions to reply with a certain phrase in the subject line though).