Simple answer, "yes of course it is"



Any "reputable company" that sends out requests to verify accounts, passwords or other details is a phishing mail.

If you start off from that standpoint about any such email, then you won't go far wrong. Treat every "official" email with suspicion, and go from there.

Microsoft, hotmail, yahoo, google, ebay, apple, amazon, ups etc. will NEVER email you to ask you to verify ANY details in this way.

As a general rule when they genuinely send you an email, they will always address you using some specific personal details (like your name, surprisingly), or will include your postcode, the last few digits of your account number or similar information that is personal to you, but even if they do this, start off from a position of mistrust. If the email starts with "Dear Customer", then it's a fake.

Don't click on web addresses in email, instead enter the address manually (I always type the url for my online banking manually, even in preference to using a bookmark) as it's very easy to "spoof" a link in an email to make it look like it's going to the real site when really it may be taking you to a similar-looking fake site, like this: [url=http://www.rlfans.comwww.amazon.co.uk[/url, which looks like it will take you to Amazon, but will actually take you to rlfans.

Maybe it's just me not knowing what I'm looking for, but I really don't 'get' plasma. A bloke I work with tells me they're unbeatable, but I look and think the picture looks a bit dark and generally not that smooth. I was in Selfridges last night (God knows why, it's a horrible place), so I decided I'd try comparing a few of the TVs they have on show. All of the LED/LCD TVs they had out looked far better than the plasmas on show. When you went right up close, the detail looked much clearer, the edges seemed smoother and the colours were brighter and seemed more natural. I imagine if I was to go home and read a review on the TVs, the plasmas would probably win the review as they always do, but I really don't see why. As I said, maybe it's because I'm not an experienced eye, but I don't get the plasma love-in.

Would never buy a plasma tv, I'd personally stick with LED.

Plasmas are better for the 47"+ TVs.

The latest LG range of LED Smart TVs have a great picture, we have one (42"icon_wink.gif and bar the sound (which all thin TVs have problems with now) it's a top notch TV.

Our other TV's are LG and we have never had a problem. Looked at the 47" LED 3D Smart version with built in WiFi yesterday and it looks great.

We've got a 47" 3D (Not Smart though) LG. The only problem I have is the poor quality sound but if you're connected to a surround sound system it will be fine.