Red Flags: Suspicious Symbols

All right, you've got clue number one locked down. Now,

let's move on to clues two and three. This is where scammers get a little lazy, actually.

They use suspicious symbols and numbers, hoping you're in a hurry and won't notice.

So, we're on the lookout for two huge red flags here. The first one is

seeing weird hyphens and symbols in the domain name. The second is when a link isn't made

of words at all, but just a string of numbers, what's known as an IP address.

Think about it. Do any of the major websites you use every day have hyphens in their name?

Almost never. So, if you get a link to, say,