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A client just got this email (the circles are ours, of course): It is not from Charles Schwab. Nor has Charles Schwab been hacked. Scammers target companies like Schwab due to their ubiquity. Think Apple, Amazon, FedEx…they are all so big and so widely used that scammers just hope you use these companies and believe the email is real. Here are the signs of the scam, going from top to bottom. First, the sender email is “.click”. Schwab is only ever “.com”. Second, the link has the same issue, but this time it’s “.ink”.  Third, to be sneaky, they left …