Written: January 14, 2013

That’s Not the Better Business Bureau

As a small business owner I receive my fair share of unwanted email messages, so today I wanted to show you what a typical phishing email looks like:

 

Phishing is where the bad guys are impersonating someone else, like the Better Business Bureau, and then they want you to click a link or download a file, however this link or download will likely cause harm to your computer, so don’t do it.

What tipped me off that this was a bogus email?

1. The email name is from yong_evans@newyork.bbb.org which is false because the BBB uses only email names like bbb.org and never newyork.bbb.org.
2. I am not a member of the BBB, so they have no reason to be sending me an email.
3. The email content has an opening line: Owner/Manager. If I were a member then they would use my full name, or probably my business name, but never the generic Owner/Manager
4. Reputable companies do not send email attachments like a ZIP file.

Using precautions like this you can stay victim-free when reading email each day.

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