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TechTips: Demything Email Legends
Have you ever received one of those chain emails that look like this? You may want to think twice before you start forwarding to everyone in your contacts list.
It might look pretty convinving and you might even feel compelled to send it off to everyone in your contacts list immediately - it's just a few clicks. What harm can be done right? But before you do here's how you can check the integrity of an email message like this one:
1. Highlight and copy a sentence from the email:
2. Now past that sentence into Google or any other search engine: (we're partial to Google)
3. In the search results you might find a lot of websites that can help you determine the integrity of the email. Here's a few we like to use:
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