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beginning of the URL (web address),
while visiting banking sites, entering your
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in email messages, go directly to the
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Avoid deals that are too good to be true,
and don’t click on email attachments
from senders you don’t know; and
certainly don’t open attachments that
are from senders you do know, but are
unexpected.
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