October is sikkerhetsmåneden – let’s make Norway safer together. – ITavisen.en

October is sikkerhetsmåneden – let’s make Norway safer together.

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October is national sikkerhetsmåned. In connection with this running ITavisen, in collaboration with Tom Heine Nätt, increased focus on consumer safety. Smarte tips are published every day.

2. Tips in connection with the national sikkerhetsmåned are:

never Trust the sender address in an e-mail It may be counterfeit

The vast majority of inquiries are from serious players, will come from an email address that contains domain name to the player. An e-mail from Elkjøp will therefore end on @elkjop.en and an email from DNB will end on @dnb.en.

If the e-mail address changes to something completely different, is there really reason to be skeptical:

You should therefore make sure that your e-mail reader displays the e-mail address also for the e-mails that have a sender’s name set. This will, in many cases, reveal that something is wrong.

Note, however, that it is to falsify a sender address on an email is very easy to do for anyone. Without much technical knowledge can freely choose what should stand as the from address and name in an e-mail, so we can easily made this:

therefore, You must never take the sender address as a proof of who an email comes from.

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