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Email Security Best Practices

The document provides email security best practices, advising to always check the email sender and report suspicious emails, check for double-extended scam attachments, and note the difference between www.microsoft.com and similar looking domains. It also advises to not open attachments ending in .exe or other executable files, to not click embedded links without checking the URL first, and to not respond or reply to spam emails.

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Email Security Best Practices

The document provides email security best practices, advising to always check the email sender and report suspicious emails, check for double-extended scam attachments, and note the difference between www.microsoft.com and similar looking domains. It also advises to not open attachments ending in .exe or other executable files, to not click embedded links without checking the URL first, and to not respond or reply to spam emails.

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Salman Almishari
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ALWAYS check the email ‘From’ field to validate the

sender. This ‘From’ address may be spoofed. ALWAYS report all suspicious emails to your
Information Technology help desk.

ALWAYS check for so-called ‘double-extended’ scam


attachments. A text file named ‘safe.txt’ is
safe, but a file called ‘safe.txt.exe’ is not.
ALWAYS note that www.microsoft.com and
www.support.microsoft.software.com are
two different domains. (and only the first is real)

Email Security Best Practices

DO NOT open any email attachments that end with:


.exe, .scr, .bat, .com, or other executable
files you do not recognize.
DO NOT ever click embedded links in messages
without hovering your mouse over them
first to check the URL.

DO NOT “unsubscribe” - it is easier to delete the


e-mail than to deal with the security risks. DO NOT respond or reply to spam in any way. Use
the delete button.

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