How to identify spam emails

More and more spam is getting tricker – but there is one fundamental way to tell it is definitely spam.

The sender will use an email address that is clearly fake.

See image. If you hover over the reply email you will see it is not a genuine email address.

Paypal will always use your name. If you get a PayPal email that is fake they don’t have access to your name.

More often than not to – the email is a no-reply email because they are reliant on your using the link in the email to get spammed.

If you have an account that needs updating via most services – they will ask you to go to that account and log in that way and not via an email link and inside that account, you will also have a message.

If for example, eBay wants an account detail updated – you will get an email and they will ask you to log into eBay and the same message will appear inside the account. If its not inside your account it’s probably fake.