{"id":781,"date":"2019-12-27T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/?page_id=781"},"modified":"2019-12-27T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:00:05","slug":"safe-email-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/?page_id=781","title":{"rendered":"Safe Email Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">Reposted December 27, 2019<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Everyone needs to be aware of scam emails presenting as potentially related to legitimate business, such as invoices, contracts, receipts, refunds or subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>Scam emails tend to have the following components:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0The subject includes \u201cRE:\u201d indicating that it is a response to an email the recipient sent. The subject also includes a relevant business topic like, \u201cinvoice,\u201d \u201cwork contract,\u201d \u201cpayment,\u201d or \u201clawsuit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Back in the day, scam emails came from addresses like \u201cUnknown@XYZcorp.\u201d Now, scam emails come from ordinary people named \u201cacpoper,\u201d \u201cRandy,\u201d \u201cmarie\u201d and \u201ccwalters2\u201d who work at seemingly legitimate businesses.<\/li>\n<li>There is seldom an address used, such as \u201cDear Mr. Sparks\u2026\u201d Instead, the email starts with the body of the email and is not addressed to any specific recipient in the body of the email.<\/li>\n<li>The email references some previous or existing business activity and directs you to click an attachment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is a file with examples of scam emails I have received just in the past couple of weeks. I\u2019ve added some witty observations for fun \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/e3Business-eMail-Scams.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e3Business eMail Scams<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you have any question, DO NOT OPEN the email or the attachment, (use your preview screen). Email Brett and ask if he knows anything about it. Thank you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted December 27, 2019 Everyone needs to be aware of scam emails presenting as potentially related to legitimate business, such as invoices, contracts, receipts, refunds or subpoenas. Scam emails tend to have the following components: \u00a0The subject includes \u201cRE:\u201d indicating that it is a response to an email the recipient sent. The subject also includes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/?page_id=781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safe Email Practices<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spmstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}