An email urges you to open an invoice link immediately and log in. What is the safest first move?
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Answer
Do not click; verify through a separate trusted channel or type the known address manually.
Urgency plus login request is a classic phishing pattern.
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Deep dive
Phishing clue: urgency + login request = stop
Do not click; verify through a separate trusted channel or type the known address manually. The exam trap is that a realistic-looking invoice link can still be fake.