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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Dr Hobbitstein

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10. Because it's not a fake site pretending to be legit asking for personal info.

Reply to empedocles (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 9, 2019, 09:12 AM

Nov 2019

Phishing is when a fraudulent site or email (or caller) is disguised to be legitimate in order to extract personal information from you via trickery. This site is none of that. Whatever security app you are using is falsely flagging the site.

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I got a phishing warning on this cite empedocles Nov 2019 #1

False alarm. nt Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #3

How can you tell? empedocles Nov 2019 #5

Because it's not a fake site pretending to be legit asking for personal info. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #10

thank you empedocles Nov 2019 #11

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