Tips on identifying spam

Be suspicious of emails received from people or organizations that you don’t know. If you have not interacted with them, it is unlikely anything they send to you will be legitimate

Don’t always trust emails with a URL, especially if they are shorteners embedded which makes it hard to tell where it really goes

Be suspicious of unopened attachments included in messages from business organizations

Never give information which is being requested by email, such as login credentials. If you’d like to follow up for more information, go directly to the company’s website and contact them through there

Verify the email domain to ensure that it matches the company that the email claims to be sent from

Install Norton Security Online to protect your devices

Regularly check your junk mail folder so that you can retrieve any email messages that are valid. Right-click to mark it as “not spam” to improve the filtering going forward

Unsubscribe from unwanted email distribution lists

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