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[quote=Anonymous]At my law firm we have cyber security training twice a year. Two things have been burned into my brain as red flags - an urgency of time, and large sums of money.

There are other red flags of course, but those are the two that always pop out to me. My firm sends out phishing emails to us to check if we fall for them or report them as a phish alert (we are to hit the Phish Alert Report button on any email we're unsure of).

Two weeks ago I got an email from my manager telling me a client wanted me to review them and I was to click a link, enter my username and password and then would get a link to the survey. When I double-checked what the email address was it said Manager@LawFirmName.com.   And I thought "but we have SO MANY managers here - they wouldn't have given him that email address, it doesn't follow our format." Then I realized his email didn't say which client it was. Never mind how weird it would be for a client to ask their attorney's legal secretary to review them.

So there are red flags. You just have to listen louder to them than whatever the person on the phone or in the email is telling you. [/quote]

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