Have you ever received an email from your bank or PayPal stating that you need to update your contact info. These emails “look” very legit but upon deeper analysis it is actually quite easy to tell if they are fraudulent. Here are a few checks you can do to verify if you have received a bad email or not.
- Gut check – if it doesn’t quite feel right then it probably isn’t
- Sender address – look at the email sender’s address. But sometimes this can be hidden to you, so you might have to look at the properties of the email and look for Internet headers. In there you will see the actual email address and server processing the email. If you don’t see a @bankname.com or something like that, then it is a bad email.
- Google check – if after those first two you are still not convinced. Copy and paste the title of the email into a Google search and if it is a scam, you will find all kinds of reports from people just like you.
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