I agree. If people knew how to read URLs, then phishing scams would no longer exist. "Okay, the domain in the URL for this link is X, but I know my bank's doma

I agree. If people knew how to read URLs, then phishing scams would no longer exist. "Okay, the domain in the URL for this link is X, but I know my bank's domain is Y, therefore it's a scam." Part of it is the URL syntax being unintuitive, part of it is simple lack of proper education/training. But it seems like in the time you tell people "DON'T CLICK LINKS IN EMAIL OMG", you could just teach them how to read a URL. Maybe if URLs had spaces and looked a little more like a postal address than a confusing jumble, people might actually read them. As it stands now, though, most people just type everything into a search page -- even if they're actually typing in a URL as a search term. Kind of like that story about the number one search term on MSN being Google.