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SecuritybeginnerAbout 20 minutes

Spot the phishing email

Read the headers and the message the way a security analyst does: check who really sent it, find the lines that give a scam away, leave the real mail alone and respond to the bad ones.

Part of the path Security analyst starter (step 1 of 4), next: Read a Linux auth log

What you will do

4 tasks
  1. 1.Read the headers

    Open the first message, Your mailbox is almost full.

  2. 2.Read what it asks for

    A scam also gives itself away in the words.

  3. 3.Sort the rest of the inbox

    Four more messages.

  4. 4.Respond to the bad ones only

    For each scam, choose the responses it calls for: report it, block the sender, and delete the message if it carries an attachment that could run.