I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but email scams are getting surprisingly sophisticated.
We’ve had a handful of instances here at The Intelligence International Headquarters where we’ve had to do a double-take—or occasionally even the rarely seen triple-take—and put an authentic-seeming email under the metaphorical microscope to confirm that it was actually something shady.
Spoiler alert: In each and every such instance, the email in question was, in fact, shady as all get-out. And at least a couple of times, we came dangerously close to missing it and falling for the trap.
That’s why I was so intrigued when I came across the tool I’m gonna share with you today. It’s an incredibly useful resource for identifying fishy emails and instantly confirming that something isn’t what it seems—and