I’ve gotten so paranoid anymore, but it only takes getting sloppy once. It just seems these creepy scoundrels are so pervasive anymore and I guess they are next to impossible to catch.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
I looked (in *Preview*) at an email from my auto insurer a couple of months back, and it looked EXACTLY like what I normally get from them, but didn’t seem ‘right’.
I finally noticed in the small print at the end that they had a letter in the acronym wrong. I deleted it without opening, then did a set of scans just to be safe.
I also web-based email accounts, and when something comes to them, no matter what or from whom, I right click on any links in the *PREVIEW*, and hit *PROPERTIES*, and that shows what the REAL address of the link is, no matter what it says it is. It doesn’t get opened if it’s got bad links.
Have to be careful, and check EACH link, because there are often a couple of real links to main site of the real company in th first part & very end, but the “money links” for the actual “offer” in the body of the message are the redirects.
I’ve googled some of them, and most are well know scam operations located mainly in China, Rumania, or Russia, where there is zero chance of doing anything about them.