Keep Your Employees from Falling for Email Scams
While email phishing scams arrive in our personal email frequently, they also appear in our work email boxes and texts.
Be sure to talk to your employees about possible spam at work. While they may be suspicious about scams on their personal phones and computers, they may let their guard down while using company devices and make poor decisions. Then, opening potentially harmful spam emails becomes a company problem.
Remind your employees to scrutinize all unexpected emails as they may be disguised as company-related issues like:
Email scams aren’t always easy to spot. These cyber crooks are pretty good at what they do. The email may even appear to come from you.
Here are some red flags for them to watch for in their messages:
Advise everyone to notify you if they receive a questionable email so you can review it for authenticity. Then you can make that decision.
The Federal Trade Commission has a good post about recognizing phishing, How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams, that you can review.
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