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September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 cryptosmith

Rule #1 for Detecting a Phish

Bogus email with address not matching sender's name


Golly. This one was really hard to spot.

Just kidding. This is obviously a fake email. I don’t think that American Express is likely to be sending email from “Steakhousetopia.com” regardless of how challenging Internet operations might get.

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