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The school offers a wireless facility (wifi) to the Computer Science students of Class XI. For communication, the network security staff of the school has a registered URL schoolwifi.edu. On 17 September 2017, the following email was mass distributed to all the Computer Science students of Class XI. The email claimed that the password of the students was about to expire. Instructions were given to go to the URL to renew their password within 24 hours.

Do you find any discrepancy in this email?
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Solution
Yes, the given link in question is different from the link given in the email.
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