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Often times, the email address that sends you a malicious link or message will

have a strange address as it is. They frequently have a strange subject line, and

the formatting of the message is suspect as well.

There's a number of free services that can take it a step further and really scan a

URL to check if it's safe or not.

1. http://scanurl.net/ - [ This is an excellent and fast resource to quickly scan

links. ]

2. https://safeweb.norton.com/ - [ Another free link / website scanner, but

this time it's from Norton. ]

You don't really have to use these services for every single link that you

encounter. However, you should save them for times when you are just
completely not sure.

Perhaps when a friend sends you a link and you believe their account may have

been compromised, and so on.

None of this is very complicated or difficult, and you can easily get in the habit of

recognizing bad links and messages. Eventually you won't even have to open the

emails to know if they're spam, just by the subject line.

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