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Email Phishing Red Flags

Learn to identify the warning signs that indicate a phishing email before it causes damage. Articles under this tag break down suspicious sender addresses, urgent language patterns, mismatched URLs, unexpected attachments, and other telltale indicators of fraudulent messages targeting your inbox.

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Email Phishing Red Flags

Email Phishing Red Flags: 9 Signs You're Being Targeted

One Employee Missed the Red Flags — It Cost $2.3 Million In December 2020, a mid-sized manufacturing company in Ohio wired $2.3 million to what they believed was a long-standing supplier. The invoice looked perfect. The email address was off by a single character. Nobody caught it until the

Carl B. Johnson Apr 16, 2021 7 min read
Email Phishing Red Flags

Email Phishing Red Flags: 9 Signs You're Being Targeted

In March 2024, a finance employee at a UK-based engineering firm wired $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call. The attackers had spoofed the company's CFO — but the entire attack chain started with a single phishing email. That first message contained at least four classic

Carl B. Johnson Jan 19, 2020 7 min read