Do You Know How To Spot A Phishing Scam?

The first step in fighting phishing scams is to identify the attempts to make an email or text seeking personal information seem genuine. If you receive an unsolicited email from an unknown source, and it requests that you click on a link, be careful. Often, return addresses aren't what they appear to be. Sometimes, there are errors in punctuation, or diction, that identify them as coming from a foreign source. There are many hints, and you need to learn how to spot them. One big one is a text, email or social media post that comes from someone you know to have been dead for 3 years. Be careful out there.