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My mom's old trick for phishing emails actually worked on me
Last month I got an email that looked exactly like my bank's login page. The URL looked legit, the logo was perfect, everything felt right. I almost typed in my password but then remembered my mom's goofy rule: read the whole thing out loud. The message said something like 'your account has been compromised' but with a typo in the fine print. I checked the sender address closer and it was off by one letter. Has anyone else caught a scam just because of bad grammar?
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maxm5026d ago
Oh man, that's rough but I'm glad you caught it before it was too late. Your mom's trick is honestly pretty clever - I do the same thing now when I'm on sketchy sites and it's helped me dodge a few close calls too.
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skyler51626d ago
That's a good trick your mom taught you. Reading it out loud can catch things your eyes just skip over. I actually think bad grammar gets too much credit as a scam detector, though. The really dangerous ones now are written by people who know how to write properly and use perfect English. They'll even pass the sniff test on the sender address by using a legitimate looking subdomain. The typo filled emails are usually the lazy scammers, but the ones that actually get people are the polished, professional looking ones with no mistakes at all.
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