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- Asking for your personal information or taking you to a website that asks you to sign in or enter other personal information
- Urgent calls to action, often with serious consequences (e.g., “You “You must verify your information immediately or your account will be deleted.")
- Messages containing poor grammar and typos
- Messages coming from an unusual name or email address (e.g., a message may appear to come from “unlvpresidentemail@gmail“whitman.president.name@gmail.com)
- Website addresses that don’t make sense (e.g., a link takes you to “whitman“whitman.web.com” com” instead of “whitman“whitman.edu”edu”)
- Very vague messages designed to get a quick reply (e.g., "are you available?")
However, information can be mimicked, accounts can be compromised, and sophisticated attacks can look exactly the same as legitimate messages.
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