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CYBERSECURITY-BASICS5 MIN READ

Work through suspicious email triage

Apply a practical triage method to a suspicious email without clicking, forwarding recklessly, or deleting evidence too early.

A plausible internal-looking email is asking for quick action on a sensitive topic. Pause → inspect the sender and request → verify through a known-good channel → report People often click to “take a quick look,” forward the email broadly, or delete it before anyone can analyze it. Pause the reflex Do not click the attachment or link just to satisfy curiosity. Urgency and relevance are the exact levers phishing relies on. Inspect the message Check the real sender address, the request, and whether the link behavior fits normal patterns. Display names and surface branding are easy to fake; underlying…

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