I think I've seen a new scam

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5. Do you have an advice on how to avoid being phished?

I am usually totally averse to clicking on any link UNLESS I know or am aware of the email author AND the link or the request being made by author makes sense. Otherwise, I send the questionable email to our IT department for a final ruling.

I had also heard that even PREVIEWING an email, depending on your email client, can be dangerous without even clicking on links. Is that true? If that's the case, that's completely debilitating, since I get 100s of emails a day at the office, and easily in the high double digits personally each day. There is no way I could process things unless I used the preview function to make a threshold determination of whether the email was relevant or not.

Any advice on this would be great!