Check the salutation for personalization. A scammer will most likely just have your email address and not a name, so he or she will avoid using personal terms. If the greeting is vague and appears to be from a friend or business with which you do business, it’s probably a fraudulent email.

For sites that you don’t trust with your personal email, you may establish a “Masked” email address using Blur. This email is still functional; all messages sent to it will be forwarded to your actual email.

In 5 simple actions, you may hide your outgoing emails from Gmail. Open a new tab and visit your Gmail account. Select the Accounts page and then the Settings button at the top of the window.

When you create a new Outlook email, click on the “Options” tab. You should select the Bcc field in the message header from there. This is your “blind carbon copy” choice, which means that your email recipients will not see other names on the list.

There are numerous varieties of email forgery. Display name faking displays the individual being impersonated, but leaves the actual sending email address intact. Scammers may also imitate the entire email address or just the domain name, i.e., what comes after the @ symbol.