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Detecting phishing emails

Email providers are always implementing new measures to fight spam emails and prevent phishing messages from entering a user's mailbox. However, at times, some phishing emails make it through to your mailbox. The following are some ways to identify a phishing scam:

• If the email is from a bank, an organization, or even a social networking site and has a generic greeting message.
• Phishing emails may contain malicious attachments.
• Phishing emails sometimes contain grammatical errors and misspelled words.
• The sender's email address does not look legitimate.
• It contains links to spoofed websites or malicious domains.

The following is an email I received some years ago. The sender's name and email are legitimate since ...