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How to spot a scam email or text

The fact that you and everyone you know will receive spam and scam emails (and texts) for as long as they live should be added to the famous Ben Franklin quote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Spam is constant and ever present, and you likely have a few hundred messages sitting in your spam folder as you read this. The very fact that we even need to have a spam folder tells us there’s a problem. However, you are a savvy inbox navigator and a seasoned connoisseur of Nigerian missives. The problem is, someone in your family is decidedly not. Maybe it’s your mother or father, an uncle, or even a step-relative. Here’s some advice to keep them safe.

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