Scammed by email link!

We all have heard of "Phishing"
well for those of you who do not know what 'phishing' is all about it is all about scamming.well,I am sure that by now you must have allr eceived somme email or the other,supposedly from Yahoo or Google,asking you to click on the link in THAT email and login.the problem is that if you click on the link in the email,then your login id as well as password will be obtained by the scammer.the link in the email will contain a code which enables the scammer to obtain the user id and password while allowing you to Log in.
But keep in mind that as you login the scammer obtains your login id and password at the same time.recently a top travel agent received an email allegedly from yahoo,but sent by a scammer telling him that something was wrong with his email account and that for security reasons he would have to log into his email using the link in the email.the problem was that email account was the one that the Travel agent used to condut gis business with and naturally the email account contained all the vital info for his business.once he clicked on the link and logged in,all his details went to the scammer and now his business info is being misused and he is not able to log back into this OWN email account.so the next time you get a link in your email,be careful!