This Email Is Making Me FEEL Something

Scammers manipulate your emotions!

Is an email, text or DM making you feel sudden, urgent emotions?

• “You won our sweepstakes!”
• “You’re under arrest!”
• “I’ve been recording you.”

These emotions can be positive:

• You won an expensive cooler but you have to respond fast to claim it!
• An attractive stranger wants to be your friend and strike up a convo!
• You’re owed money from a forgotten invoice!

Messages and email can also be scary:

• You owe back taxes and we’re coming to collect unless you call!
• I’m your boss and I’m texting you from an unknown number, but I need to know your bank account info ASAP!
• You’ve been hacked and you need to pay up. All of these are symptoms of scams and phishing!

Is a message pushing you to click before you think?

• Is it causing strong feelings?
• Is it unexpected?
• Is it requesting you take action, like making a payment?

This goes for emails, texts, DMs, and now even calls because of artificial intelligence platforms.

1. Don’t click! - Don’t even click Unsubscribe!
2. Report emails as phishing if possible.
3. Delete.
4. Block the contact info from scammy phone numbers.

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