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Email authenticity checklist
Work through sender, context, link and consequence checks in a disciplined order.
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What the email authenticity checklist examines
This checklist helps you test whether an email fits a real relationship and a normal process before you reply, open a link or approve a request.
Sender and reply path
Compare the full address and expected domain, while remembering that a real mailbox can be compromised.
Known context
Verify the project, invoice, colleague or event through records you already have rather than details repeated in the email.
Consequence and authority
Confirm unusual payments, credentials, files and access changes with an authorised person on a separate channel.
How to use the email authenticity checklist result
Treat the output as a list of questions, not an accusation. Confirm the claimant through a channel they do not control, then apply the pause, verify, decide checklist to the consequence of the requested action. The published scoring method explains why one serious contradiction can outweigh several cosmetic positives.
What this tool cannot establish
This browser checklist cannot inspect mail headers, SPF, DKIM, attachments or the sender's account. Escalate suspicious work email through your approved security route.
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