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If you are ever suspicious of an email, it is better that you NOT click on any links or follow any instructions in the email. Contact the person or department the email is reportedly from via a different means, such as by phone. If you are concerned about the security of your password, navigate to the page in question yourself - not by following any links in the email - and change your password. As long as you have not clicked on any links or downloaded any attachments within a suspicious email, you can safely delete the message. (If you did follow a link or provide any sensitive information, go ahead and change your passwords. Consider running a virus scan. And depending on the scam, you may feel that some of the steps recommended in this USA Today article or this Google Support article are warranted.)

 

Additional Examples and Information

Please visit this article for additional examples and tips for recognizing phishing emails: https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor/c-suite-phishing-attack-examples/

This Gizmodo article does a nice job of summarizing new phishing tactics (posted 3/20/2019): https://gizmodo.com/how-phishing-scams-are-evolving-and-how-not-to-get-caug-1832618224

This article from How-To Geek tells you what you should and should not do with a phishing email: https://www.howtogeek.com/437513/what-should-you-do-if-you-receive-a-phishing-email/