How can I safely open a suspicious email?
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Mar 15, 2026104538 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Suppose I receive an email that I highly suspect is some form of spam but I'm not 100% sure. Suppose also that I'm using form of webmail (like Gmail) with good spam filters, but this message made it through safely. Obviously I should not open any attachments, but is this email otherwise safe to ope…
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If you open the email in a web client (ie, online at gmail.com or mail.yahoo.com, etc), you're generally very unlikely to experience any problems. If this email contained a script virus (very rare nowadays) it would generally require being opened in…
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