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Then they send you an email with an attachment, like a PDF or Word doc, that looks legitimate.<\/p><p>When you click the attachment to see a preview of it, you get redirected to a Google sign-in page where you enter your credentials. The problem is, those attachments aren\u2019t attachments \u2013 as per the discovery of Wordfence. 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