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                    | FROM THE SIDELINES Occasional Observations of the Library World From a Journalist’s Point of View
 How to Identify Scam Emails and Stop Identity Thieves
 by Dick Kaser
 
 
 
                        [NOTE: This article appears in the October 2018 issue of Computers in Libraries under the title “A Few of My Favorite Phish.”]    |  
                    | Dick Kaser (kaser@infotoday.com) is the executive editor of Computers in Libraries. He is an independent journalist who has been covering the information industry and library technology for more decades than he can remember.
 
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