call a phone number in the e-mail; it could be fake.
To visit a company’s or bank’s Web site, type the
address in yourself if you know it or use your own
bookmark rather than clicking a link. If the Web site
is new to you, search for the company using your
browser and use that link to visit its site. Don’t click
on the link in an e-mail, or you may land on a site
that looks right — but is just a good fake.➟ Does the e-mail have a photo or video to down-
load? If so, exercise caution. If you know the person
who sent the photo or video, it’s probably fine to
download, but if the photo or video has been for-
warded several times and you don’t know the person
who sent it originally, be careful. It may deliver a
virus or other type of malware to your computer.Figure 5-20
117Chapter 5: Risk-Free E-Mail