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How to Spot Phishing Email in 5 Easy Steps

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Paul Mah
Paul Mah
Feb 3, 2012

You may be familiar with the term phishing, but how good are you — or your employees — at spotting a phishing attack? Given how effective phishing attacks are at fooling people into divulging personal or company information, it’s an important skill to hone to improve small business security — and one that most people lack.

Our sister site, ITBE.com lays out five simple steps to identify a phishing message in this slideshow.

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