Your Email Scam Field Guide is here

This week on the blog I walked through the four scams that probably hit your inbox today: fake order confirmations, lookalike sender domains, the callback invoice trick, and the Reply-To wire fraud.

If you missed any of them, the whole series is here: pcrescue.me/blog.

Friday's tip - hover before you click - is the closest thing to a universal email defense you'll ever build. Three seconds, every link, every time. It costs nothing and it stops most scams before they start.

The cheat sheet

Attached to this email is the PCRescue Email Scam Field Guide — a one-page printable that fits on a fridge.

Print one for yourself. Print one for your mom. Print one for the relative who's "not really a computer person."

Next week: the call you didn't mean to make

Most email scams aren't trying to install a virus on your computer. They're trying to get you on the phone. That's where the real money disappears.

Next Monday I start a 5-part series on remote support scams — fake "Microsoft" calls, fake "Apple" pop-ups, the way scammers buy Google ads to put themselves at the top of every "HP support" search. Plus the full anatomy of one customer's three-hour ordeal, told minute by minute, so the script becomes recognizable.

And next Friday, the Real Support Numbers Cheat Sheet lands in your inbox — a printable with verified phone numbers and URLs for every major brand. Tape it next to the computer and never have to Google "Microsoft support" again.

One favor

If this newsletter saved you — or if you know someone it might save next week — forward it. The single best protection against this stuff is a friend who's already seen the trick.