Spotting a Scam
Scammers are becoming smarter and smarter! It is not as easy to identify the legitimate emails now adays from the scams but here is a simple trick to help you spot an email scam.
My husband and I have a joint account with Bank of America and recently in an email he received this message:
This looks like a legitimate email - the company logo, and they even added a lock image to the right side. The first clue for me was that I never added my husband's email address for alerts but the scammer didn't know that, so I knew right away this was bogus but my husband did not. I mean the email looks very realistic. Then I moused over the link on the page and without clicking on it I looked at what the actual link was going to; you can see this by looking at the status bar on the bottom. This is a great way to spot a scam. Look at where the link is actually pointing to, not where it says it is pointed to - scam!
Spotting a scam: look at the real link not the one written on the web page.
Share with us your ways of spotting a scam.
My husband and I have a joint account with Bank of America and recently in an email he received this message:
This looks like a legitimate email - the company logo, and they even added a lock image to the right side. The first clue for me was that I never added my husband's email address for alerts but the scammer didn't know that, so I knew right away this was bogus but my husband did not. I mean the email looks very realistic. Then I moused over the link on the page and without clicking on it I looked at what the actual link was going to; you can see this by looking at the status bar on the bottom. This is a great way to spot a scam. Look at where the link is actually pointing to, not where it says it is pointed to - scam!
wowsentinels.com - that's not bank of america!
Then, just out of curiosity, I retyped the name of the link they said they were sending me to and as you can see on the real bankofamerica site, it says the pages do not exist.
Spotting a scam: look at the real link not the one written on the web page.
Share with us your ways of spotting a scam.
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