The folks over at PCWorld have created a nice picture tutorial about scam e-mails and how to detect them. If you're a network administrator, you'll see little new, but more casual users may be fooled by some or all of the sample e-mails.
They can't illustrate every scam trick, of course, but some themes should be evident and are worth reminding users about. URLs that are IP addresses (http://65.214.57.165) rather than names (http://www.networkworld.com) smell bad. Offers to download files are bad. Messages from your bank asking you to click a special link to "verify" your credentials are bad.
Lots of bad messages are floating around out there, so show users who seem unable to think criticallly when confronted with an ususual e-mail this story. If possible, train users to send questionable e-mails to "Fred" or someone else, like you, with a better scam-sniffing nose. It only takes one misake to turn your company into a negative newspaper headline and security warning for others, so be careful.
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