[ILUG] Ignorant question on spam

[Timothy Murphy]

I find the following stanza in a spam email:
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follow the instructions.<br />  \n <br />  \n
<a href="http://213.244.26.140/index.html"
target="_blank">
http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi<wbr />-bin/webscr?
cmd=_login-run</a>
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If I click on the URL I see I am taken to 213.244.26.140
rather than www.paypal.com (which is all I see).

Is that a standard html trick?

I know I see the naughty address at the bottom of my Firefox page
if I hover over the address I see.
Is that the only way to avoid falling into the trap?

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland