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How to Detect a Phishing E-mail

                   As it is said that " Their is no match to human stupidity."  We always get excited when we get messages from the most know companies like GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, etc. We don't even think that this may be fraud.                       Here are the 10 ways through which you can identify that these messages are genuine or not. 1. Don't trust the display name of whom the email is from:                  Just because it says it's coming from a name of a person you know or trust doesn't mean that it truly is. Be sure to look as the email address to confirm the true sender. 2. Beware of urgency:                 These emails might try to make it sound as if there is some sort of emergency(e.g., the CFO need a $1M wire transfer, a Nigerian prince is in trouble, or someone only needs $100 so they can claim their million-dollar reward). 3. Look but don't click.                 Hover your mouse over the parts of the email without clic