These are general signs you can look for to know if the email is a spam or a phishing email
⚠️The sign:
The email domain which is what comes after the ‘@’ is a general one, like gmail, yahoo, hotmail..etc.
✅What to do:
Ignore the email. Usually companies and recruiters have their own domain name for example tesco career centre has the following domain @uk.tesco.com.
⚠️The sign:
The email has an unknown attachment.
✅What to do:
Do not open any attachments from senders you do not know. Delete the email without opening the attachment, as this might be a virus waiting to be downloaded onto your device.
⚠️The sign:
The email is asking you to do something immediately or otherwise a bad consequence or a threat might occur.
✅What to do:
Delete this email. No respectable company, organisation, employer or recruiter will ask you to immediately do something for you to get the job or threaten you to do something to get the job.
⚠️The sign:
The email is not addressed to you, but more of a generic one for example, it starts with “Dear Sir/Madam” without your name.
✅What to do:
Ignore the email. Usually recruiters, employers and companies that want to speak to potential candidates would have already done their research and have the basic information about you. So, if they want to send you a message or an email, they will at least address it to you in your name.
⚠️The sign:
Your email provider (for example you have a Gmail account) would give you a message saying it suspect this email as spam (example shown below).
Gmail detecting potential spam email
✅What to do:
Ignore the email. If you do not know the sender, then your email provider is probably right, and it is a spam email.
Gmail detecting potential spam email