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Fight Online Crime with Grammar
April 01, 2021
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We have all seen them: emails with bad grammar,
spelling mistakes and other problems. The writers ask us to go to a web page or open a
file linked to the email. But if we do, the result is sharing personal or financial information.
Here is the good news. Anyone with some knowledge of grammar can find out that these are not official messages from a bank or an internet service. We will learn how to recognize them in today s Everyday Grammar.
Cybersecurity experts call these email or text messages phishing.