An authentic email

An authentic email will always use
your first and last name

It will have a url
that points back to its original domain

It will have a feel
as if you are speaking to a human


An authentic email
will not have anything you can mouse over
that points somewhere else

But you cannot know for sure
unless you test
everything

trust
nothing

And be forever wary
safely assume
the sender is not real
and the message is fake

Because this is the public internet
endless background noise
and you exist
in the radiation
of the glow
of countless worms
spamware
malware
spoofing
hacking
phreaking
phish

and all of the things that sound so perfect.
or forged.
or farmed from a contact database
or too good.

to be true.

And more than likely
you have been bought
and sold

And you are just another entry
in a database

It is not a question of if
but rather when
Artficial
Intelligence

Pretends

It is Human
and it will have a way

That it can fool you.

So be wary
of Trojans

And phish
and spam

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