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Be extra careful with emails taking advantage of the Covid-19 situation.
Scammers have found a way to pretend to be legitimate merchants, selling masks and other products to entice customers into clicking links in their emails and entering their credit card details and one-time PINs on a fake website.
Regardless of what emails you are looking at, here are some tips to determine whether they come from legitimate merchants:
Check the sender’s email address.
Merchants who can afford to have their website should be able to afford their own email domain. Be careful if the sender is using a public email domain (e.g. '@gmail.com', '@yahoo.com').
Look for the padlock icon + https.
A simple yet effective way of checking whether a website is legitimate is when it has a padlock icon on the address bar, and the underlying protocol has an added "S" (i.e., https).
This means that the website is secure and verified:
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Watch out for spelling or grammatical errors.
Spelling and grammatical errors are red flags on official communications. These may also be used to make a fake website look real (e.g. www.rnedicine.com vs www.medicine.com); notice that the first letter from the first URL is an 'r' to make it look like an 'm' when combined with the letter 'n'.
In case you receive emails similar to what is described above, DO NOT CLICK on the link and DO NOT DOWNLOAD the attachment. Once opened, these could infect and attack your device, systems, and networks.
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