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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Please stated why.

Any type of email claiming to be anything can often be suspicious. Most of the time, it is obvious, and most of the time, an email service can detect most spam emails. Even as far as warning you if you click the provided link or attachment.

The first step is to verify that his childhood friend even sent the email in the first place because I wonder why they did not send it via text message. Richard should be cautious and ask questions his childhood friend would only know since it can be a helpful way to verify.

Something else Richard can do is search the email in search engines or even various email tools to verify. It is also possible to see who sent the attachment and where it leads to with multiple tools used by analysts.

Richard can use antivirus software or upload it to an online virus-scanning tool to ensure the attachment is not malicious.

Always be cautious of suspicious-looking emails and attachments, although many corporations and computers can protect you when opening the attachment. In this case, Richard should use some standard practices and be cautious.