but also at least you have to be careful even though the problem has existed for some time. because there are so many incidents that fraudsters send phishing links via e-mail and the e-mail of the sender or fraudster is almost the same as the official Stake email.
what I do is usually if I receive an email or through any message and claim to be from the gambling party or the Stake party, I usually always ask the support team whether it is an official message from gambling. if the support team answer is not official message i will ignore and delete the message immediately.
While this will put a bigger pressure on the customer support of most casinos, I am sure even they prefer for this to be managed on this way as the hit they receive to their reputation when one of their gamblers lose their money in this way is simply too big, after all it is unlikely the OP will want to continue to gamble at stake after what happened and it is possible other people may feel the same way, causing stake to lose money due to an incident that could have been easily avoided.